On Mon, 16 Oct 2017, Michal Hocko wrote: > > So I mmap(MAP_CONTIG) 1GB working of working memory, prefer some data > > structures there, maybe recieve from network, then decide to write > > some and not write some other. > > Why would you want this?
Because we are receiving a 1GB block of data and then wan to write it to disk. Maybe we want to modify things a bit and may not write all that we received.
