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, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>
