On Mon 16-10-17 11:02:24, Cristopher Lameter wrote: > On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > > > So I mmap(MAP_CONTIG) 1GB working of working memory, prefer some data > > > structures there, maybe recieve from network, then decide to write > > > some and not write some other. > > > > Why would you want this? > > Because we are receiving a 1GB block of data and then wan to write it to > disk. Maybe we want to modify things a bit and may not write all that we > received. And why do you need that in a single contiguous numbers? If performance, do you have any numbers that would clearly tell the difference? -- Michal Hocko SUSE Labs -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
