Re: missing madvise functionality

[Ulrich Drepper]

Rik van Riel wrote:
> I already started looking into implementing this.
> 
> Basically:
> [...]

Sounds good.  Except:


> 1) on MADV_DONTNEED, mark pages clean, not accessed and move them
>    to some "dontneed" LRU list.

LRU is likely the wrong answer.  The longer a page has not been reused
the more likely it won't be.  So, the dontneed-list  should be a simple
FIFO.

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