Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 2 Feb 2015 14:35:41 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [RFC PATCH] mm: madvise: Ignore repeated MADV_DONTNEED hints |
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On Mon, 2 Feb 2015 22:18:24 +0000 Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:
> > Is there something > > preventing this from being addressed within glibc? > > I doubt it other than I expect they'll punt it back and blame either the > application for being stupid or the kernel for being slow.
*Is* the application being stupid? What is it actually doing? Something like
pthread_routine() { p = malloc(X); do_some(work); free(p); return; }
?
If so, that doesn't seem stupid?
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