From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by iona.labri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id A2B67101770 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:48:54 +0100 (CET) Received: from iona.labri.fr ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (iona.labri.fr [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with LMTP id saWI4AAkD2wK for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:48:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from implementation.famille.thibault.local (d80-170-95-85.cust.tele2.fr [80.170.95.85]) (using TLSv1 with cipher AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by iona.labri.fr (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F6D2101763 for ; Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:48:51 +0100 (CET) Received: from samy by implementation.famille.thibault.local with local (Exim 4.63) (envelope-from ) id 1HMqKJ-0000s0-Qp for linux-mm@kvack.org; Thu, 01 Mar 2007 19:48:27 +0100 Resent-Message-ID: <20070301184827.GA3346@implementation.famille.thibault.fr> Resent-To: linux-mm@kvack.org Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:11:57 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault Subject: Re: differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED Message-ID: <20070301181157.GG3550@implementation.labri.fr> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi, Eric wrote: > > We should implement a real MADV_DONTNEED and rename the current one > > to MADV_FREE, but that's 2.6.17 material. > > We definitely need to check this. I am fairly certain I have seen > this conversation before. Yes, it was back in 2005: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111996850004771&w=2 Nobody took the time to fix it, I filed bug #6282 on bugzilla.kernel.org some time ago. Samuel -- 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-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org