Re: fix residual space in memory block

On Wed, 5 Jul 2000, Tom Lane wrote:

> Karel Zak <zakkr@zf.jcu.cz> writes:
> >  Here is the patch that create from residual space in memory block new free
> > chunks. We already discussed about it during 7.0. --- I owe this patch :-)
>
> Right, I was going to ask you for that.  Will apply it.
>
> >  My previous implementation create _one_ chunk only. Now I implement it
> > in do{}while, and if residual space is large, it create more free chunks.
>
> I think that is a waste of cycles.  One chunk will get most of the
> problem without much processing work...
>

 I don't know how much spend time one or two cycle, but IMHO it is not
bad cost, because new block is not allocated very often (and in your new
in AllocSet it depend on context initialization) and if we implement it
without cycle we still have residual and never used space in memory. For
example if residual space will 400b new _one_ chunk reduce it to half
only...

 We will see how much memory is residual in MemoryContextCheck() very
well (and you will see that I'm right :-)))

 If I'm writing to you Tom --- do you want fill code in MemoryContextCheck()
yourself? --- or I can a little rewrite my function that I sent to you and
we can use it.

Thanks.
                Karel