Re: a plea for mincore()/madvise()

["Stephen C. Tweedie" <sct@redhat.com>]

Hi,

On Fri, 10 Mar 2000 19:39:03 -0500 (EST), Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>
said:

> i'll create a patch against 2.3.51-pre3 for madvise() and post it on the
> mm list before sunday.  then we can argue about something we've both seen
> :)

> let me think some more about DONTNEED.  at the face of it, i agree with
> your suggestion, but i may just exclude it from the patch until there is
> more discussion here.

For what it's worth, Linus's request --- that DONTNEED throws stuff
away without propagating dirty data --- is something that I've had big
database folk asking us for more than once.

--Stephen


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