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Change most quote characters to proper <quote> tags,

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Giorgos Keramidas 2002-02-14 23:57:13 +00:00
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process will take a copy-on-write fault and duplicate the page in C2.
The original page in B is now completely hidden since both C1 and C2
have a copy and B could theoretically be destroyed if it does not
represent a 'real' file). However, this sort of optimization is not
represent a <quote>real</quote> file). However, this sort of optimization is not
trivial to make because it is so fine-grained. FreeBSD does not make
this optimization. Now, suppose (as is often the case) that the child
process does an <function>exec()</function>. Its current address space
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are mapped, or processes with large runsizes (RSS) fork. Also, in order
to keep track of swap space, a <quote>list of holes</quote> is kept in
kernel memory, and this tends to get severely fragmented as well. Since
the 'list of holes' is a linear list, the swap allocation and freeing
the <quote>list of holes</quote> is a linear list, the swap allocation and freeing
performance is a non-optimal O(n)-per-page. It also requires kernel
memory allocations to take place during the swap freeing process, and
that creates low memory deadlock problems. The problem is further
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times in order to avoid potential deadlocks. Finally, to reduce
fragmentation the radix tree is capable of allocating large contiguous
chunks at once, skipping over smaller fragmented chunks. I did not take
the final step of having an 'allocating hint pointer' that would trundle
the final step of having an <quote>allocating hint pointer</quote> that would trundle
through a portion of swap as allocations were made in order to further
guarantee contiguous allocations or at least locality of reference, but
I ensured that such an addition could be made.</para>