[PATCH v2 0/4] malloc: Improve Huge Page support

[Siddhesh Poyarekar]

On 8/19/21 5:34 PM, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> I think this would be an additional tunable, we still need to handle
> the case where mmap() fails either in default path (due maximum number
> of mmap() per process by kernel or when the poll is exhausted for
> MAP_HUGETLB).
> 
> So for sbrk() call, should we align the increment to huge page and
> issue the madvise() if the tunable is set to use huge pages?

Yeah it's a reasonable compromise.  I've been thinking about getting rid 
of max_mmaps too; I don't see much use for it anymore.

Siddhesh