Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

Ulrich Drepper
2007-05-07T02:42:51Z

Rik van Riel wrote:
> I think that maybe for 2.6.22 we should just alias MADV_FREE
> to run with the MADV_DONTNEED functionality, so that the glibc
> people can make the change on their side while we figure out
> what will be the best thing to do on the kernel side.

No need for that. We can later extend glibc to use MADV_FREE and fall
back on MADV_DONTNEED.

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