Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

[Rik van Riel]

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().

-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/