From: Marko Macek <Marko.Macek@gmx.net>
To: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
Cc: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: missing madvise functionality
Date: Wed, 04 Apr 2007 04:53:14 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4613131A.2060206@gmx.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <46128051.9000609@redhat.com>
Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> A solution for this problem is a madvise() operation with the following
> property:
>
> - the content of the address range can be discarded
>
> - if an access to a page in the range happens in the future it must
> succeed. The old page content can be provided or a new, empty page
> can be provided
Doesn't this conflict with disabling overcommit?
If the page is guaranteed to be available, obviously it must count as
being commited, so this is not equivalent to real freeing.
Mark
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-04 2:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 99+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-03 16:26 missing madvise functionality Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 16:55 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 17:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 17:37 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 18:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 17:20 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 17:28 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 20:09 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 20:17 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 20:29 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-04-03 20:38 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 21:49 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 23:01 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 2:22 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 5:41 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 6:09 ` [patches] threaded vma patches (was Re: missing madvise functionality) Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 6:26 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 6:38 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 6:42 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-04 6:44 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 6:50 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 6:54 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-04 7:33 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 8:25 ` missing madvise functionality Peter Zijlstra
2007-04-04 8:55 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 9:12 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-04 9:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 9:34 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-04 9:45 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 10:05 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 11:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-05 2:01 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05 6:09 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-05 6:19 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-05 6:54 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-03 23:02 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 9:15 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 14:55 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-04 15:25 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-05 1:44 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 18:04 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 18:08 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-04 20:56 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 18:39 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-03 23:44 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 13:09 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-04 13:38 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-04 18:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 4:14 ` William Lee Irwin III
2007-04-04 23:00 ` preemption and rwsems (was: Re: missing madvise functionality) Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 12:48 ` David Howells
2007-04-05 19:11 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-05 20:37 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-06 9:08 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-06 19:30 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-06 19:40 ` Ingo Molnar
2007-04-05 19:27 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 7:31 ` missing madvise functionality Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 7:39 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 8:32 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 15:47 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 8:08 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-05 8:31 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 9:06 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-05 9:45 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-04-05 16:15 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 16:10 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-06 2:28 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-06 2:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-06 2:59 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-03 20:51 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-03 20:57 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 21:00 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 21:10 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-03 21:12 ` Jörn Engel
2007-04-03 21:15 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 21:30 ` Eric Dumazet
2007-04-03 21:22 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-03 21:29 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-03 21:46 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 22:51 ` Andi Kleen
2007-04-03 23:07 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-03 21:16 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-04 18:49 ` Anton Blanchard
2007-04-03 22:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-04-03 22:23 ` Ulrich Drepper
2007-04-04 2:53 ` Marko Macek [this message]
2007-04-04 2:56 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-04 14:37 ` Hugh Dickins
2007-04-04 7:46 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 8:04 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-04 8:20 ` Jakub Jelinek
2007-04-04 8:47 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05 4:23 ` Nick Piggin
2007-04-05 18:38 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-05 21:07 ` Andrew Morton
2007-04-05 21:39 ` Rik van Riel
2007-04-06 1:28 ` Nick Piggin
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