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Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 21:53:24 -0700
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory
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Rik van Riel wrote:
> It's trivial to merge the MADV_FREE #defines into the kernel
> though, and aliasing MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED for the time
> being is a one-liner - just an extra constant into the big
> switch statement in sys_madvise().

Until the semantics of the implementation is cut into stone by having it 
in the kernel I'll not start using it.

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a?? Ulrich Drepper a?? Red Hat, Inc. a?? 444 Castro St a?? Mountain View, CA a??

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