Package: wnpp Severity: wishlist Owner: Adam Borowski <kilob...@angband.pl>
* Package name : memkind Version : 1.8.0 (coming soon) Upstream Author : Intel * URL : http://memkind.github.io/memkind/ * License : BSD3 Programming Lang: C Description : user-extensible heap manager for heterogeneous memory platforms The memkind library is a user extensible heap manager built on top of jemalloc which enables control of memory characteristics and a partitioning of the heap between kinds of memory. While arbitrary user control is possible, built-in characteristics include NUMA and page size. Note that there's an issue with a patched fork of jemalloc. Version 1.7 (included in Ubuntu) can use unmodified jemalloc 5.1, 1.8 requires a patch that hasn't been accepted by jemalloc's upstream. But, unlike Ubuntu, Debian doesn't have jemalloc 5.1 anyway. We're still at an ancient version (3.6). The rB-Deps include only 16 packages, but most of them are both fat and notable. Quite a bunch also FTBFS for unrelated reasons; excluding those it seems spades is the only one that breaks on upgrading jemalloc 3.6 -> 5.1. As doing such a transition is not a trivial task, I'm thus thinking of using the private fork of jemalloc for memkind for the time being. On the other hand, there are other projects needing such patched jemalloc, such as redis.
