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Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc
- From: Siddhesh Poyarekar <siddhesh dot poyarekar at gmail dot com>
- To: KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki dot motohiro at gmail dot com>
- Cc: libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Mon, 15 Apr 2013 09:42:55 +0530
- Subject: Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc
- References: <516ADB3C dot 9040805 at gmail dot com>
On 14 April 2013 22:07, KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@gmail.com> wrote:
> Now, we linux MM folks discuss are discussing about new memory discarding feature.
> (https://lkml.org/lkml/2013/3/12/105). The motivation is similar wtih MADV_FREE,
> but more efficient. (http://lwn.net/Articles/230799)
I just went through this and it looks interesting as a replacement for
MADV_DONTNEED in malloc. Please let us know what becomes of this so
that we could explore the possibility of using it in malloc.
Thanks,
Siddhesh
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