On Monday 01 May 2006 14:32, Maxim Sobolev wrote: > Just curious what does it bring us in terms of performance/memory > savings?
Mostly neutral performance. It allows us to free otherwise unused memory. > -Maxim > > Peter Wemm wrote: > > peter 2006-05-01 21:22:38 UTC > > > > FreeBSD src repository > > > > Modified files: > > sys/i386/i386 pmap.c > > Log: > > Using an idea from Stephan Uphoff, use the empty pte's that > > correspond to the unused kva in the pv memory block to thread a > > freelist through. This allows us to free pages that used to be used > > for pv entry chunks since we can now track holes in the kva memory > > block. > > > > Idea from: ups > > > > Revision Changes Path > > 1.555 +115 -50 src/sys/i386/i386/pmap.c -- Peter Wemm - [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] "All of this is for nothing if we don't go to the stars" - JMS/B5 _______________________________________________ cvs-all@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-all To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
