Re: [PATCH] MM: implement MADV_FREE lazy freeing of anonymous memory

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Rik van Riel wrote:
I think that maybe for 2.6.22 we should just alias MADV_FREE
to run with the MADV_DONTNEED functionality, so that the glibc
people can make the change on their side while we figure out
what will be the best thing to do on the kernel side.

No need for that. We can later extend glibc to use MADV_FREE and fall back on MADV_DONTNEED.

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