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

[Ulrich Drepper]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> 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().

Until the semantics of the implementation is cut into stone by having it 
in the kernel I'll not start using it.

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â Ulrich Drepper â Red Hat, Inc. â 444 Castro St â Mountain View, CA â
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