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From: Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@cygnus.com>
Cc: VGER kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Subject: Re: posix_fadvise
Date: Fri, 14 Apr 2000 23:24:30 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20000414232430.E30555@pcep-jamie.cern.ch> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m3itxkcsfd.fsf@localhost.localnet>; from Ulrich Drepper on Fri, Apr 14, 2000 at 01:56:54PM -0700

Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> Jamie Lokier <lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> > Ok.  You should be aware that the present Linux implementation of
> > MADV_DONTNEED is "nukes dirty data".  Do you have a POSIX standard that
> > says POSIX MADV_DONTNEED should be similar to POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED?
> 
> Yes.  But this shouldn't be a problem.  Nobody says that nuking isn't OK.

You gave the definition as "the application does not need the data in
the near future".  If it were ok to nuke the data, the definition would
say "the application does not need the data".

-- Jamie
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  reply	other threads:[~2000-04-14 21:24 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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     [not found]   ` <m3snwofzo4.fsf@localhost.localnet>
2000-04-14 20:45     ` posix_fadvise Jamie Lokier
2000-04-14 20:56       ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
2000-04-14 21:24         ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2000-04-14 21:35           ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper
2000-04-14 21:56             ` posix_fadvise Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-04-15  2:49               ` posix_fadvise Ulrich Drepper

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