From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Mon, 13 Mar 2000 12:20:12 -0500 (EST) From: Chuck Lever Subject: Re: a plea for mincore()/madvise() In-Reply-To: <14541.4418.281304.671792@dukat.scot.redhat.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Cc: Linus Torvalds , linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote: > > let me think some more about DONTNEED. at the face of it, i agree with > > your suggestion, but i may just exclude it from the patch until there is > > more discussion here. > > For what it's worth, Linus's request --- that DONTNEED throws stuff > away without propagating dirty data --- is something that I've had big > database folk asking us for more than once. i believe that allowing an application to dispose of data this way is a good idea, and that it's something that Linux should allow. but there was an interesting discussion here on linux-mm recently that described a slightly different interface that would allow this and some other functionality too. i'd just like to study the suggestions a bit. the rest of madvise is already implemented, i just have to port it to 2.3.51. i'll post that piece of it soon. - Chuck Lever -- corporate: personal: or The Linux Scalability project: http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/linux-scalability/ -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/