From: Pekka Enberg <penberg@kernel.org>
To: Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org>
Cc: Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>, linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
leonid.moiseichuk@nokia.com, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com,
Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
mel@csn.ul.ie, rientjes@google.com,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Ronen Hod <rhod@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC 0/3] low memory notify
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 17:04:28 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAOJsxLG6Q=zr8kqcds7jWzpGqqy2GV10YERb9njMzM8y7kS55A@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1326811093.3467.41.camel@lenny>
On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 4:38 PM, Colin Walters <walters@verbum.org> wrote:
> So what you really want to be investigating here is integration between
> a garbage collector and the system VM. Your test program looks nothing
> like a garbage collector. I'd expect most of the performance tradeoffs
> to be similar between these runtimes. The Azul people have been doing
> something like this: http://www.managedruntime.org/
The interraction isn't all that complex, really. I'd expect most VMs
to simply wake up the GC thread when poll() returns. GCs that are able
to compact the heap can madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) or even munmap() unused
parts of the heap.
Pekka
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 15:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-17 8:13 [RFC 0/3] low memory notify Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 8:13 ` [RFC 1/3] /dev/low_mem_notify Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 9:27 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 16:35 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 18:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:30 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 19:49 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:54 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 19:57 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 23:20 ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18 7:16 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18 7:49 ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18 9:06 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18 9:15 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18 9:41 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18 10:40 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-18 10:44 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-18 23:34 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19 7:25 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 9:05 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19 9:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 9:20 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-19 10:53 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-19 11:07 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 11:54 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-19 11:59 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-19 12:06 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 15:38 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:08 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-24 18:10 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25 8:52 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-25 10:12 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25 10:48 ` Ronen Hod
2012-01-26 16:17 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:10 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 18:29 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-25 8:19 ` leonid.moiseichuk
2012-01-19 7:34 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 16:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-18 14:30 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-18 15:29 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 15:40 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 16:01 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-24 16:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-01-24 18:32 ` Marcelo Tosatti
2012-01-24 21:57 ` Jonathan Corbet
2012-01-17 9:45 ` Pekka Enberg
2012-01-17 8:13 ` [RFC 2/3] vmscan hook Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 8:39 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 9:13 ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 10:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 23:08 ` Minchan Kim
2012-01-18 0:18 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-18 14:17 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-19 2:25 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-19 14:42 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-20 0:24 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2012-01-17 8:13 ` [RFC 3/3] test program Minchan Kim
2012-01-17 14:38 ` [RFC 0/3] low memory notify Colin Walters
2012-01-17 15:04 ` Pekka Enberg [this message]
2012-01-17 16:44 ` Rik van Riel
2012-01-17 17:16 ` Olof Johansson
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