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| author | Maria Matejka <mq@ucw.cz> | 2022-11-01 18:40:56 +0100 |
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| committer | Maria Matejka <mq@ucw.cz> | 2022-11-02 12:56:54 +0100 |
| commit | 9d03c3f56ced3d3191982f57029f9a3d12fa2e5a (patch) | |
| tree | ad1fa71442ad21704a99a18653d716b088bb2b78 /lib/string.h | |
| parent | 37b644413723670928f6b54f2abe0c852eb0b652 (diff) | |
Memory pages are not munmapped, instead we just madvise()
Memory unmapping causes slow address space fragmentation, leading in
extreme cases to failing to allocate pages at all. Removing this problem
by keeping all the pages allocated to us, yet calling madvise() to let
kernel dispose of them.
This adds a little complexity and overhead as we have to keep the
pointers to the free pages, therefore to hold e.g. 1 GB of 4K pages with
8B pointers, we have to store 2 MB of data.
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