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Re: Question about madvise(DONTNEED) in glibc malloc


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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