From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261404AbVF1U2k (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:28:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261395AbVF1UZb (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:25:31 -0400 Received: from mailfe08.tele2.fr ([212.247.154.236]:42941 "EHLO swip.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261404AbVF1UVF (ORCPT ); Tue, 28 Jun 2005 16:21:05 -0400 X-T2-Posting-ID: dCnToGxhL58ot4EWY8b+QGwMembwLoz1X2yB7MdtIiA= Date: Tue, 28 Jun 2005 22:20:53 +0200 From: Samuel Thibault To: =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel Cc: Robert Love , Andy Isaacson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: wrong madvise(MADV_DONTNEED) semantic Message-ID: <20050628202053.GO4645@bouh.labri.fr> Mail-Followup-To: Samuel Thibault , =?iso-8859-1?Q?J=F6rn?= Engel , Robert Love , Andy Isaacson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20050628134316.GS5044@implementation.labri.fr> <20050628181620.GA1423@hexapodia.org> <1119983300.6745.1.camel@betsy> <20050628185300.GB30079@hexapodia.org> <1119986623.6745.10.camel@betsy> <20050628194128.GM4645@bouh.labri.fr> <20050628200330.GB4453@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> <1119989111.6745.21.camel@betsy> <20050628201704.GC4453@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <20050628201704.GC4453@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i-nntp Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jörn Engel, le Tue 28 Jun 2005 22:17:04 +0200, a écrit : > If the application knows 100% that it is the _only_ possible user of > this data and will never again use it, dropping dirty pages might be a > sane option. Effectively that translates to anonymous memory only. And private file mappings? Regards, Samue