From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
To: "Jörn Engel" <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
Cc: Samuel Thibault <samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org>,
Andy Isaacson <adi@hexapodia.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic
Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:05:11 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1119989111.6745.21.camel@betsy> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050628200330.GB4453@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de>
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 22:03 +0200, Jörn Engel wrote:
> Plus, common sense agrees with posix. An implementation of madvice
> that doesn't do anything should be perfectly sane and functionally
> equivalent to any other implementation. Only differences should be in
> performance.
>
> Dropping dirty pages is a clear functional difference.
I like the idea (I think someone suggested this early on) of renaming
the current MADV_DONTNEED to MADV_FREE and then adding a correct
MADV_DONTNEED.
And, as I said, the man page needs clarification.
Robert Love
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-06-28 20:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-06-28 13:43 wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic Samuel Thibault
2005-06-28 14:38 ` [Patch] Hotfix for " Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 18:16 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-06-28 18:28 ` Robert Love
2005-06-28 18:53 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-06-28 19:23 ` Robert Love
2005-06-28 19:41 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-06-28 20:03 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:05 ` Robert Love [this message]
2005-06-28 20:17 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:20 ` Samuel Thibault
2005-06-28 20:30 ` Jörn Engel
2005-06-28 20:37 ` Andy Isaacson
2005-07-05 23:39 ` Darren Hart
2005-06-29 16:53 ` wrong madvise(MADV DONTNEED) semantic Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-29 17:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2005-06-29 16:34 ` Michael Kerrisk
2005-06-28 18:54 ` wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic Samuel Thibault
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=1119989111.6745.21.camel@betsy \
--to=rml@novell.com \
--cc=adi@hexapodia.org \
--cc=joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=samuel.thibault@ens-lyon.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is an external index of several public inboxes,
see mirroring instructions on how to clone and mirror
all data and code used by this external index.