Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S936364AbZLQEN4 (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:13:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S936354AbZLQENi (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:13:38 -0500 Received: from fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp ([192.51.44.35]:41914 "EHLO fgwmail5.fujitsu.co.jp" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S936184AbZLQEMB (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Dec 2009 23:12:01 -0500 X-SecurityPolicyCheck-FJ: OK by FujitsuOutboundMailChecker v1.3.1 From: KOSAKI Motohiro To: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [mm][RFC][PATCH 0/11] mm accessor updates. Cc: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, Christoph Lameter , Andi Kleen , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-mm@kvack.org" , "akpm@linux-foundation.org" , "mingo@elte.hu" , minchan.kim@gmail.com In-Reply-To: <1261004515.21028.510.camel@laptop> References: <1261004515.21028.510.camel@laptop> Message-Id: <20091217130945.9F9A.A69D9226@jp.fujitsu.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.50.07 [ja] Date: Thu, 17 Dec 2009 13:11:57 +0900 (JST) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 470 Lines: 12 > As for per-vma locks, those are pretty much useless too, there's plenty > applications doing lots of work on a few very large vmas. Yes, because brk() makes large vmas. I don't imazine no malloc application are so much. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/