Deallocating memory pages

[Clemens Eisserer]

Hi,

> I'd say let's put this on hold for now. I don't personally have
> experience/expertise in building/testing JDK on non-Linux platforms (or
> access to machines, either), unfortunately. But I still think it's
> compelling enough to have it contributed somehow.

This is really unfourtunate, from my POV especially for client-side workloads.
On the desktop, footprint is often more important than
peak-performance, especially when running many java based desktop
applications.
(although I have to admit CMS doesn't make a lot of sence there).

What I find so intriguing about this patch is that it basically
reduces one of the drawbacks of GC based systems: Unused memory is not
given back to the memory manager of the OS. I've recently read a paper
about the idea of a GC interface provided by the kernel to avoid this
issue, but this patch essentially achieves the same just by using
existing interfaces.

Regards, Clemens