Luke Palmer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Leopold Toetsch writes: >> It seems, that in that case we still need to walk the PMC arenas and >> reset all live bits. OTOH when ARENA_DOD_FLAGS is on, this isn't too >> expensive because it can be done my masking a full word worth of 8 PMCs >> at once. So its still a lot faster then the eager case - hopefully. >> >> Or am I missing something?
> I don't think you are. I would have thought that GC be the one to reset > the live bits, but there was a lot of DOD that I didn't completely > understand. GC is mostly independent of DOD and it doesn't look at PMCs. GC compacts variable sized memory pools. I have applied now your patch with some minor cleanup. Funnily clearing the live bits after an aborted lazy DOD run seems not to be necessary. Either the test (t/pmc/timer_7) is bogus or I'm still missing something. > Luke Thanks again for your patch, leo
