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

[Chuck Lever <cel@monkey.org>]

On Mon, 13 Mar 2000, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> > 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.

i believe that allowing an application to dispose of data this way is a
good idea, and that it's something that Linux should allow.  but there was
an interesting discussion here on linux-mm recently that described a
slightly different interface that would allow this and some other
functionality too.  i'd just like to study the suggestions a bit.

the rest of madvise is already implemented, i just have to port it to
2.3.51.  i'll post that piece of it soon.

	- Chuck Lever
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