Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 May 2007 16:05:47 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] stub MADV_FREE implementation |
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On Mon, 07 May 2007 23:51:47 -0400 Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> wrote:
> Until we have better performance numbers on the lazy reclaim path, > we can just alias MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED with this trivial > patch. > > This way glibc can go ahead with the optimization on their side > and we can figure out the kernel side later. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
Could someone please explain what is going on here?
And has Ulrich indicated that glibc would indeed go out ahead of the kernel in this fashion? - 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/
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