On Tue, Jun 14, 2022 at 05:45:53PM -0700, Stefano Stabellini wrote: > Basically, if we allocate (and free) page-by-page it leads to more > efficient resource utilization but it is slower. If we allocate larger > contiguous chunks it is faster but it leads to less efficient resource > utilization. > > Given that on both x86 and ARM the unpopulated memory resource is > arbitrarily large, I don't think we need to worry about resource > utilization. It is not backed by real memory. The only limitation is the > address space size which is very large.
Well, unpopulated memory will consume memory to populate the related metadata (ie: struct page and realted tracking information) for the unpopulated region, so it's not completely free. Thanks, Roger.
