Re: [Lhms-devel] [PATCH 0/7] Fragmentation Avoidance V19

[Jeff Dike]

On Thu, Nov 03, 2005 at 11:54:10AM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> Lots of work has gone into batching up syscalls and making as few of them as 
> possible because they are a performance bottleneck.  You want to introduce a 
> syscall for every single individual page of memory allocated or freed.
> 
> That's stupid.

I think what I'm optimizing is TLB flushes, not system calls.  With
mmap et al, they are effectively the same thing though.

				Jeff
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