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Date: Sat, 5 Dec 2015 12:10:42 +0100 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org, Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@...il.com>, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>, Johannes Weiner <hannes@...xchg.org>, Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@...e.de>, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>, Jason Evans <je@...com>, Daniel Micay <danielmicay@...il.com>, "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>, Shaohua Li <shli@...nel.org>, Michal Hocko <mhocko@...e.cz>, yalin.wang2010@...il.com Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/13] MADV_FREE support On Wed 2015-11-04 10:25:54, Minchan Kim wrote: > MADV_FREE is on linux-next so long time. The reason was two, I think. > > 1. MADV_FREE code on reclaim path was really mess. Could you explain what MADV_FREE does? Comment in code says 'free the page only when there's memory pressure'. So I mark my caches MADV_FREE, no memory pressure, I can keep using it? And if there's memory pressure, what happens? I get zeros? SIGSEGV? Thanks, Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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