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Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:00:47 +0000
From: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@kernel.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2 v6] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages
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On 02/04, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> On 01/17, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > On 01/17, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 06:48:55PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> > > > > I don't understand how this is different from MADV_COLD.  Please
> > > > > explain.
> > > > 
> > > > MADV_COLD is a vma range, while this is a file range. So, it's more close to
> > > > fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) which tries to reclaim the file-backed pages
> > > > at the time when it's called. The idea is to keep the hints only, and try to
> > > > reclaim all later when admin expects system memory pressure soon.
> > > 
> > > So you're saying you want POSIX_FADV_COLD?
> > 
> > Yeah, the intention looks similar like marking it cold and paging out later.
> 
> Kindly ping, for the feedback on the direction. If there's demand for something
> generalized api, I'm happy to explore.

If there's no objection, let me push the change in f2fs and keep an eye on
who more will need this in general.