On Wed, Nov 02, 2005 at 05:28:35PM -0600, Rob Landley wrote:
> With fragmentation reduction and prezeroing, UML suddenly gains the option of
> calling madvise(DONT_NEED) on sufficiently large blocks as A) a fast way of
> prezeroing, B) a way of giving memory back to the host OS when it's not in
> use.
DONT_NEED is insufficient. It doesn't discard the data in dirty
file-backed pages.
Badari Pulavarty has a test patch (google for madvise(MADV_REMOVE))
which does do the trick, and I have a UML patch which adds memory
hotplug. This combination does free memory back to the host.
Jeff
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