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authorJason Evans <je@facebook.com>2010-03-17 23:27:39 (GMT)
committerJason Evans <je@facebook.com>2010-03-17 23:27:39 (GMT)
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Remove medium size classes.
Remove medium size classes, because concurrent dirty page purging is no longer capable of purging inactive dirty pages inside active runs (due to recent arena/bin locking changes). Enhance tcache to support caching large objects, so that the same range of size classes is still cached, despite the removal of medium size class support.
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@@ -71,9 +71,9 @@ any of the following arguments (not a definitive list) to 'configure':
are 4-byte-aligned.
--disable-tcache
- Disable thread-specific caches for small and medium objects. Objects are
- cached and released in bulk, thus reducing the total number of mutex
- operations. Use the 'H' and 'G' options to control thread-specific caching.
+ Disable thread-specific caches for small objects. Objects are cached and
+ released in bulk, thus reducing the total number of mutex operations. Use
+ the 'H', 'G', and 'M' options to control thread-specific caching.
--enable-swap
Enable mmap()ed swap file support. When this feature is built in, it is