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Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc
- From: Andreas Jaeger <aj at suse dot com>
- To: libc-alpha at sourceware dot org
- Cc: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki dot motohiro at gmail dot com>, wg at malloc dot de
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 08:58:03 +0200
- Subject: Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc
- References: <516ADB3C dot 9040805 at gmail dot com>
On Sunday, April 14, 2013 09:37:16 KOSAKI Motohiro wrote:
> [...]
> Please tell me historical reason, a pointer of past discussion, the
> design of current code, etc, etc if anyone know.
I suggest you reach out to Wolfram Gloger, he has done the majority of
the malloc code in glibc incl. some benchmarks, see e.g.:
http://www.dent.med.uni-muenchen.de/~wmglo/malloc-slides.html
I suggest you check also the archives of libc-alpha and libc-hacker,
Andreas
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