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Message-ID: <AANLkTim0vCJkMoH5P0wCN9J6340rDsscyNBQ+R+_ph8m@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Mon, 15 Nov 2010 16:19:48 +0900
From:	Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@...il.com>
To:	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Ben Gamari <bgamari.foss@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	rsync@...ts.samba.org, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>
Subject: Re: fadvise DONTNEED implementation (or lack thereof)

On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:09 PM, KOSAKI Motohiro
<kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com> wrote:
>> > 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@vger.kernel.org/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?

Still yet. :)
If we all think it's reasonable, it would be valuable to adjust it
with current mmotm and see the effect.

>
>
>



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Kind regards,
Minchan Kim
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