Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)

From: KOSAKI Motohiro
Date: Mon Nov 15 2010 - 02:09:48 EST


> > Because we have an alternative solution already. please try memcgroup :)
>
> I think memcg could be a solution of them but fundamental solution is
> that we have to cure it in VM itself.
> I feel it's absolutely absurd to enable and use memcg for amending it.
>
> I wonder what's the problem in Peter's patch 'drop behind'.
> http://www.mail-archive.com/linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx/msg179576.html
>
> Could anyone tell me why it can't accept upstream?

I don't know the reason. And this one looks reasonable to me. I'm curious the above
patch solve rsync issue or not.
Minchan, have you tested it yourself?


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