Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 07 May 2007 00:56:09 -0400 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory |
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Ulrich Drepper wrote: > 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.
It's trivial to merge the MADV_FREE #defines into the kernel though, and aliasing MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED for the time being is a one-liner - just an extra constant into the big switch statement in sys_madvise().
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