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DateThu, 12 Apr 2007 16:12:42 +1000
FromNick Piggin <>
SubjectRe: [PATCH] make MADV_FREE lazily free memory
Nick Piggin wrote:
> Eric Dumazet wrote:
> 

>>> Two things can happen here.
>>>
>>> If this program used the pages before the kernel needed
>>> them, the program will be reusing its old pages.
>>
>>
>>
>> ah ok, this is because accessed/dirty bits are set by hardware and not 
>> a page fault.
> 
> 
> No it isn't.

That is to say, it isn't required for correctness. But if the
question was about avoiding a fault, then yes ;)

But as Linus recently said, even hardware handled faults still
take expensive microarchitectural traps.

> 
>> Is it true for all architectures ?
> 
> 
> No.
> 


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