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MADV_DONTNEED) and madvise(..., MADV_FREE). Specifically, introduce a new pmap function, pmap_advise(), that operates on a range of virtual addresses within the specified pmap, allowing for a more efficient implementation of MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE. Previously, the implementation of MADV_DONTNEED and MADV_FREE relied on per-page pmap operations, such as pmap_clear_reference(). Intuitively, the problem with this implementation is that the pmap-level locks are acquired and released and the page table traversed repeatedly, once for each resident page in the range that was specified to madvise(2). A more subtle flaw with the previous implementation is that pmap_clear_reference() would clear the reference bit on all mappings to the specified page, not just the mapping in the range specified to madvise(2). Since our malloc(3) makes heavy use of madvise(2), this change can have a measureable impact. For example, the system time for completing a parallel "buildworld" on a 6-core amd64 machine was reduced by about 1.5% to 2.0%. Note: This change only contains pmap_advise() implementations for a subset of our supported architectures. I will commit implementations for the remaining architectures after further testing. For now, a stub function is sufficient because of the advisory nature of pmap_advise(). Discussed with: jeff, jhb, kib Tested by: pho (i386), marcel (ia64) Sponsored by: EMC / Isilon Storage Division
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