From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx167.postini.com [74.125.245.167]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B36FE6B0062 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:01:36 -0400 (EDT) Received: by mail-oa0-f41.google.com with SMTP id k14so2579285oag.14 for ; Wed, 31 Oct 2012 19:01:35 -0700 (PDT) MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20121101012546.GC26256@bbox> References: <1351560594-18366-1-git-send-email-minchan@kernel.org> <20121031143524.0509665d.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121101012546.GC26256@bbox> From: KOSAKI Motohiro Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2012 22:01:15 -0400 Message-ID: Subject: Re: [RFC v2] Support volatile range for anon vma Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Minchan Kim Cc: Paul Turner , Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, John Stultz , Christoph Lameter , Android Kernel Team , Robert Love , Mel Gorman , Hugh Dickins , Dave Hansen , Rik van Riel , Dave Chinner , Neil Brown , Mike Hommey , Taras Glek , KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , sanjay@google.com, David Rientjes >> - making zero page daemon and avoid pagesize zero fill at page fault >> - making new vma or page flags and mark as discardable w/o swap and >> vmscan treat it. (like this and/or MADV_FREE) > > Thanks for the information. > I realized by you I'm not first people to think of this idea. > Rik already tried it(https://lkml.org/lkml/2007/4/17/53) by new page flag > and even other OSes already have such good feature. And John's concept was > already tried long time ago (https://lkml.org/lkml/2005/11/1/384) > > Hmm, I look over Rik's thread but couldn't find why it wasn't merged > at that time. Anyone know it? Dunno. and I like volatile feature than old one. but bold remark, please don't 100% trust me, I haven't review a detailed code of your patch and I don't strictly understand it. -- 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