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From: "Ulrich Drepper" <drepper@gmail.com>
To: "Davide Libenzi" <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: "Linux Kernel Mailing List" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] MAP_NOZERO - implement sys_brk2()
Date: Tue, 26 Jun 2007 22:02:33 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <a36005b50706262202w4aaa4494qc2322e49c71d8d7c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0706262052060.26540@alien.or.mcafeemobile.com>

On 6/26/07, Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org> wrote:
> I acutally have the code for it, but I never posted it since it did not
> receive a too warm review (and the only user was the fdmap thingy).

Only user of sys_indirect?  There will be quite a few right away.
Every syscall that returns a file descriptor needs O_CLOEXEC support
(socket, pipe, epoll_create, ...)


> OTOH glibc could implement __morecore using mmap(MAP_NOZERO), and hence
> brk2() would not be needed, no?

No.  mmap calls create individual VMAs which gets expensive.  There
are also some hardware drivers which get more expensive the more VMAs
there are.  I want to go away as much as possible from mmap for
malloc.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-27  5:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-27  2:44 [patch 2/3] MAP_NOZERO - implement sys_brk2() Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27  3:07 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-27  3:33   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27  3:45   ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-06-27  4:11     ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-27  5:04       ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-06-27  3:48 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-06-27  3:55   ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27  5:02     ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2007-06-27 12:32       ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-27 15:59         ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27 17:01         ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-06-27 17:43           ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-27 18:13             ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27 18:32               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-27 18:45                 ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27 22:11                   ` Nicholas Miell
2007-06-28  0:17                     ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-28  2:58                       ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-30  7:52                     ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-27 18:52             ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-06-27 19:32               ` Hugh Dickins
2007-06-27 19:00           ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-27 19:22             ` Davide Libenzi
2007-06-27 16:05       ` Davide Libenzi

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