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From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@saeurebad.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] mm: more likely reclaim MADV_SEQUENTIAL mappings
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 11:14:12 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080721111412.0bfcd09b@bree.surriel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200807211549.00770.nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au>

On Mon, 21 Jul 2008 15:49:00 +1000
Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote:

> It is already bad because: if you are doing a big streaming copy
> which you know is going to blow the cache and not be used again,
> then you should be unmapping behind you as you go.

MADV_SEQUENTIAL exists for a reason.

If you think that doing an automatic unmap-behind will be
a better way to go, we can certainly whip up a patch for
that...

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  reply	other threads:[~2008-07-21 15:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-07-19 17:31 Johannes Weiner
2008-07-19 17:59 ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-21  0:09 ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-21  1:48   ` Andrew Morton
2008-07-21  3:53     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2008-07-21  5:49     ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-21 15:14       ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2008-07-22  2:02         ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22  2:36           ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-22  2:54             ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22  3:04               ` Rik van Riel
2008-07-22  3:43                 ` Nick Piggin
2008-07-22  3:49                   ` Nick Piggin

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