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
next prev parent 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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