Re: [PATCH 0/2 v6] add ioctl/sysfs to donate file-backed pages

Matthew Wilcox
2025-01-17T18:05:42Z

On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:41:16PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> If users clearly know which file-backed pages to reclaim in system view, they
> can use this ioctl() to register in advance and reclaim all at once later.
>
> To MM and others,
>
> I'd like to propose this API in F2FS only, since
> 1) the use-case is quite limited in Android at the moment. Once it's generall
> accepted with more use-cases, happy to propose a generic API such as fadvise.
> Please chime in, if there's any needs.
>
> 2) it's file-backed pages which requires to maintain the list of inode objects.
> I'm not sure this fits in MM tho, also happy to listen to any feedback.

You didn't cc the patches to linux-mm, so that's a bad start.

I don't understand how this is different from MADV_COLD. Please
explain.