On Monday 22 August 2005 22:24, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:00:26PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > Yes, but for the VM, there is nothing else than pagecache and swapcache
> > and swap entries. Since that call will drop them, on normal files backing
> > store will remain, on tmpfs
On Fri, Aug 12, 2005 at 07:00:26PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> Yes, but for the VM, there is nothing else than pagecache and swapcache and
> swap entries. Since that call will drop them, on normal files backing store
> will remain, on tmpfs everything will vanish!
>
> Hope you'll implement this
On Friday 12 August 2005 18:38, Jeff Dike wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:36:43PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> > About this, I was thinking back to what Rik said in Ottawa at the OLS. He
> > said "just use madvise(DONTNEED) on it", but I remarked that the pages
> > were file-backed.
> > Actual
On Wed, Aug 10, 2005 at 09:36:43PM +0200, Blaisorblade wrote:
> About this, I was thinking back to what Rik said in Ottawa at the OLS. He
> said
> "just use madvise(DONTNEED) on it", but I remarked that the pages were
> file-backed.
> Actually, however, since backing store for tmpfs is just pag
