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From: DJ Delorie <dj@redhat.com>
To: Patrick McGehearty <patrick.mcgehearty@oracle.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] Remove upper limit on tunable MALLOC_MMAP_THRESHOLD
Date: Tue, 07 Dec 2021 15:35:54 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <xn5ys0gnkl.fsf@greed.delorie.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6baba8a1-99da-bea4-ab51-ea77ba1946a9@oracle.com>

Patrick McGehearty <patrick.mcgehearty@oracle.com> writes:
> DJ, does your final comments mean this patch is
> OK to commit?

Sorry, yes.  Please commit.

> I should say that I intend to also change HEAP_MAX to be
> a tunable to handle the issues we discussed as a separate
> patch. It does not look to be time consuming. I just
> can't predict when I'll have it ready because it's behind
> a couple of other things in my task list and I can't
> predict what new work tasks might cause further delays.

Please pay attention to the performance metrics on that one; you're
replacing a compiled-in constant (with associated masks and shifts,
which may not be obviously dependent) with a runtime computation, and we
do those computations a lot.  Otherwise, good luck ;-)


      reply	other threads:[~2021-12-07 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-11-01 21:48 Patrick McGehearty
2021-11-02  0:27 ` DJ Delorie
2021-11-09 22:33   ` Patrick McGehearty
2021-11-10  0:36     ` DJ Delorie
2021-11-25  0:52       ` Patrick McGehearty
2021-11-29 20:42         ` DJ Delorie
2021-11-29 21:35           ` Patrick McGehearty
2021-12-07 19:51           ` Patrick McGehearty
2021-12-07 20:35             ` DJ Delorie [this message]

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