On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:41:16PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote:
> If users clearly know which file-backed pages to reclaim in system view, they
> can use this ioctl() to register in advance and reclaim all at once later.
> 
> To MM and others,
> 
> I'd like to propose this API in F2FS only, since
> 1) the use-case is quite limited in Android at the moment. Once it's generall
> accepted with more use-cases, happy to propose a generic API such as fadvise.
> Please chime in, if there's any needs.
> 
> 2) it's file-backed pages which requires to maintain the list of inode 
> objects.
> I'm not sure this fits in MM tho, also happy to listen to any feedback.

You didn't cc the patches to linux-mm, so that's a bad start.

I don't understand how this is different from MADV_COLD.  Please
explain.


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