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Date: Tue, 8 Jul 2014 11:54:12 +0800
From: Zhang Yanfei <zhangyanfei@cn.fujitsu.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/7] mm: support madvise(MADV_FREE)
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Hi Minchan,

On 07/07/2014 08:53 AM, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Linux doesn't have an ability to free pages lazy while other OS
> already have been supported that named by madvise(MADV_FREE).
> 
> The gain is clear that kernel can discard freed pages rather than
> swapping out or OOM if memory pressure happens.
> 
> Without memory pressure, freed pages would be reused by userspace
> without another additional overhead(ex, page fault + allocation
> + zeroing).
> 
> How to work is following as.
> 
> When madvise syscall is called, VM clears dirty bit of ptes of
> the range. 

This should be updated because the implementation has been changed.
It also remove the page from the swapcache if it is.

Thank you for your effort!

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Thanks.
Zhang Yanfei

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