From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx134.postini.com [74.125.245.134]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 5C8186B0002 for ; Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:51:28 -0500 (EST) Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2013 17:51:12 -0500 From: Johannes Weiner Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] mm: fincore() Message-ID: <20130217225112.GB24384@cmpxchg.org> References: <87a9rbh7b4.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> <20130211162701.GB13218@cmpxchg.org> <20130211141239.f4decf03.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20130215063450.GA24047@cmpxchg.org> <20130215132738.c85c9eda.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20130215231304.GB23930@cmpxchg.org> <20130215154235.0fb36f53.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <87621skhtc.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <87621skhtc.fsf@rustcorp.com.au> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Rusty Russell Cc: Andrew Morton , LKML , Nick Piggin , Stewart Smith , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org On Sat, Feb 16, 2013 at 02:53:43PM +1030, Rusty Russell wrote: > Andrew Morton writes: > > On Fri, 15 Feb 2013 18:13:04 -0500 > > Johannes Weiner wrote: > >> I dunno. The byte vector might not be optimal but its worst cases > >> seem more attractive, is just as extensible, and dead simple to use. > > > > But I think "which pages from this 4TB file are in core" will not be an > > uncommon usage, and writing a gig of memory to find three pages is just > > awful. > > Actually, I don't know of any usage for this call. > > I'd really like to use it for backup programs, so they stop pulling > random crap into memory (but leave things already resident). But that > needs to madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) on the page, so need mmap. We do actually have fadvise() (posix_fadvise()). Btw, why are we not invalidating page cache from MADV_DONTNEED? I just see a page table teardown in there, so mmap for madvise alone won't do any good. fadvise() OTOTH /does/ invalidate page cache. -- 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