Gunnar Beutner 39f0739381 LibC+UE: Keep more unused chunked blocks around ...

Previously each malloc size class would keep around a limited number of
unused blocks which were marked with MADV_SET_VOLATILE which could then
be reinitialized when additional blocks were needed.

This changes malloc() so that it also keeps around a number of blocks
without marking them with MADV_SET_VOLATILE. I termed these "hot"
blocks whereas blocks which were marked as MADV_SET_VOLATILE are called
"cold" blocks because they're more expensive to reinitialize.

In the worst case this could increase memory usage per process by
1MB when a program requests a bunch of memory and frees all of it.

Also, in order to make more efficient use of these unused blocks
they're now shared between size classes.

2021-05-23 19:31:39 +02:00

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