Re: [RFC] /dev/anon

[Jeff Dike]

On Tue, Jan 13, 2004 at 12:38:05PM -0800, Davide Libenzi wrote:
> Now I'm going to say something really stupid, but why sys_madvise(MADV_DONTNEED)
> won't work for this?
> 

MADV_DONTNEED is fine for anonymous memory, but it can't make a filesystem
throw out data, which is what I need.  If it did, then people wouldn't be
agitating for sys_punch.

				Jeff
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