Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 03 Apr 2007 10:10:15 -0700 | From | Ulrich Drepper <> | Subject | Re: missing madvise functionality |
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Rik van Riel wrote: > I already started looking into implementing this. > > Basically: > [...]
Sounds good. Except:
> 1) on MADV_DONTNEED, mark pages clean, not accessed and move them > to some "dontneed" LRU list.
LRU is likely the wrong answer. The longer a page has not been reused the more likely it won't be. So, the dontneed-list should be a simple FIFO.
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