On Mon, 07 May 2007 23:51:47 -0400 Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Until we have better performance numbers on the lazy reclaim path, > we can just alias MADV_FREE to MADV_DONTNEED with this trivial > patch. > > This way glibc can go ahead with the optimization on their side > and we can figure out the kernel side later. > > Signed-off-by: Rik van Riel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Could someone please explain what is going on here? And has Ulrich indicated that glibc would indeed go out ahead of the kernel in this fashion? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
