I have an application where we use jemalloc to manage network-registered 
memory, and we have to make sure that it doesn’t madvise() chunks to the OS or 
we end up with rDMA failures.

I can disable madvise() globally with the opt.lg_dirty_mult option using the 
environment, but that isn’t ideal since there’s no reason that the normal 
allocator (a separate instance of jemalloc in our case). I have been declaring 
an extern version of the jemalloc opt variable (prefix_je_opt_lg_dirty_mult in 
our case), but this means I have to link to the .a directly, rather than 
linking to the dynamic library or the static library through -ljemalloc_suffix.

At the same time, this appears to actually work fine.

Until per-chunk-allocator control comes online for this, would it be reasonable 
to make this option R/W in jemalloc? Is there some corner case that I’m missing 
that would make this not work?

Thanks,
Luke
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