On Feb 10, 2008 01:46 +0900, KOSAKI Motohiro wrote: > > This really needs to be triggered via a generic kernel event in the > > final version - I picture glibc having a reservation API and having > > generic support for freeing such reservations. > > to be honest, I doubt idea of generic reservation framework. > > end up, we hope drop the application cache, not also dataless memory. > but, automatically drop mechanism only able to drop dataless memory. > > and, many application have own memory management subsystem. > I afraid to nobody use too complex framework.
Having such notification handled by glibc to free up unused malloc (or any heap allocations) would be very useful, because even if a program does "free" there is no guarantee the memory is returned to the kernel. I think that having a generic reservation framework is too complex, but hiding the details of /dev/mem_notify from applications is desirable. A simple wrapper (possibly part of glibc) to return the poll fd, or set up the signal is enough. Cheers, Andreas -- Andreas Dilger Sr. Staff Engineer, Lustre Group Sun Microsystems of Canada, Inc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
