On Wed 2015-11-04 10:25:54, Minchan Kim wrote:

MADV_FREE is on linux-next so long time. The reason was two, I think.

1. MADV_FREE code on reclaim path was really mess.

Could you explain what MADV_FREE does?

Comment in code says 'free the page only when there's memory
pressure'. So I mark my caches MADV_FREE, no memory pressure, I can
keep using it? And if there's memory pressure, what happens? I get
zeros? SIGSEGV?

Thanks,
								Pavel

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