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From: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>
To: Davide Libenzi <davidel@xmailserver.org>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] /dev/anon
Date: Tue, 13 Jan 2004 20:42:09 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040114014209.GA4301@ccure.user-mode-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0401131236140.12810-100000@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com>

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Now I'm going to say something really stupid, but why sys_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
> won't work for this?
> 

MADV_DONTNEED is fine for anonymous memory, but it can't make a filesystem
throw out data, which is what I need.  If it did, then people wouldn't be
agitating for sys_punch.

				Jeff

  reply	other threads:[~2004-01-14  1:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-01-13 20:21 [RFC] /dev/anon Jeff Dike
2004-01-13 20:38 ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14  1:42   ` Jeff Dike [this message]
2004-01-14  4:46     ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14  5:18       ` Nuno Silva
2004-01-14 14:41       ` Jeff Dike
2004-01-14 18:23         ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-14 22:32           ` Andrew Morton
2004-01-14 22:45             ` Davide Libenzi
2004-01-16 12:16 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-01-16 16:02   ` Andries Brouwer

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