On Sat, 25 Aug 2001, John Stoffel wrote:
> Ummm... is this really more of an agreement that Daniel's used-once
> patch is a good idea on a system. Keep a page around if it's used
> once, but drop it quickly if only used once?
There's a very big difference, though. With use-once we'll
also quickly drop the pages we have not yet used, that is,
the pages we _are about to use_.
Drop-behind specifically drops the pages we have already
used, giving better protection to the pages we are about
to use.
http://linux-mm.org/wiki/moin.cgi/StreamingIo
regards,
Rik
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