From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <14541.4418.281304.671792@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 16:03:14 +0000 (GMT) Subject: Re: a plea for mincore()/madvise() In-Reply-To: References: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Chuck Lever Cc: Linus Torvalds , James Manning , linux-mm@kvack.org, Stephen Tweedie List-ID: Hi, On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:39:03 -0500 (EST), Chuck Lever said: > i'll create a patch against 2.3.51-pre3 for madvise() and post it on the > mm list before sunday. then we can argue about something we've both seen > :) > let me think some more about DONTNEED. at the face of it, i agree with > your suggestion, but i may just exclude it from the patch until there is > more discussion here. For what it's worth, Linus's request --- that DONTNEED throws stuff away without propagating dirty data --- is something that I've had big database folk asking us for more than once. --Stephen -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux.eu.org/Linux-MM/