From: Christoph Rohland <hans-christoph.rohland@sap.com>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
James Manning <jmm@computer.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: a plea for mincore()/madvise()
Date: 11 Mar 2000 15:14:44 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <qwwd7p1ioff.fsf@sap.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Chuck Lever's message of "Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:39:03 -0500 (EST)"
Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org> writes:
> > I'd like MADV_DONTNEED to just clear the page tables. If it was a private
> > mapping, all the modifications get lost. If it was a shared mapping,
> > modifications since the last msync() may or may not get lost.
>
> i'll create a patch against 2.3.51-pre3 for madvise() and post it on the
> mm list before sunday. then we can argue about something we've both seen
> :)
>
> 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.
As stated before I would be very interested in a call (perhaps
MADV_DONTNEED) which throws away shared (anon) memory pages.
Greetings
Christoph
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Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2000-03-10 21:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-10 21:36 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-10 21:46 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-10 23:41 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-11 0:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2000-03-11 0:39 ` Chuck Lever
2000-03-11 14:14 ` Christoph Rohland [this message]
2000-03-13 8:43 ` Richard Guenther
2000-03-13 16:03 ` Stephen C. Tweedie
2000-03-13 17:20 ` Chuck Lever
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