From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Message-ID: <463E921D.3070407@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:42:37 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory References: <4632D0EF.9050701@redhat.com> <463B108C.10602@yahoo.com.au> <463B598B.80200@redhat.com> <463BC62C.3060605@yahoo.com.au> <463E5A00.6070708@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <463E5A00.6070708@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Rik van Riel Cc: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Jakub Jelinek List-ID: Rik van Riel wrote: > I think that maybe for 2.6.22 we should just alias MADV_FREE > to run with the MADV_DONTNEED functionality, so that the glibc > people can make the change on their side while we figure out > what will be the best thing to do on the kernel side. No need for that. We can later extend glibc to use MADV_FREE and fall back on MADV_DONTNEED. -- a?? Ulrich Drepper a?? Red Hat, Inc. a?? 444 Castro St a?? Mountain View, CA a?? -- 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