Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753694AbXEGCmv (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 22:42:51 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753699AbXEGCmv (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 22:42:51 -0400 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:49541 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753670AbXEGCmu (ORCPT ); Sun, 6 May 2007 22:42:50 -0400 Message-ID: <463E921D.3070407@redhat.com> Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 19:42:37 -0700 From: Ulrich Drepper Organization: Red Hat, Inc. User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.0 (X11/20070419) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Rik van Riel CC: Nick Piggin , Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel , linux-mm , Andrew Morton , Jakub Jelinek Subject: Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory References: <4632D0EF.9050701@redhat.com> <463B108C.10602@yahoo.com.au> <463B598B.80200@redhat.com> <463BC62C.3060605@yahoo.com.au> <463E5A00.6070708@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <463E5A00.6070708@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 16 Rik van Riel wrote: > I think that maybe for 2.6.22 we should just alias MADV_FREE > to run with the MADV_DONTNEED functionality, so that the glibc > people can make the change on their side while we figure out > what will be the best thing to do on the kernel side. No need for that. We can later extend glibc to use MADV_FREE and fall back on MADV_DONTNEED. -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/