From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965466AbXCASMX (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:12:23 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965470AbXCASMX (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:12:23 -0500 Received: from iona.labri.fr ([147.210.8.143]:57432 "EHLO iona.labri.fr" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965466AbXCASMW (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Mar 2007 13:12:22 -0500 Date: Thu, 1 Mar 2007 19:11:57 +0100 From: Samuel Thibault To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: differences between MADV_FREE and MADV_DONTNEED Message-ID: <20070301181157.GG3550@implementation.labri.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@vger.kernel.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, Eric wrote: > > We should implement a real MADV_DONTNEED and rename the current one > > to MADV_FREE, but that's 2.6.17 material. > > We definitely need to check this. I am fairly certain I have seen > this conversation before. Yes, it was back in 2005: http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=111996850004771&w=2 Nobody took the time to fix it, I filed bug #6282 on bugzilla.kernel.org some time ago. Samuel