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Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Posted Jun 8, 2012 18:17 UTC (Fri) by jstultz (subscriber, #212)
In reply to: Volatile ranges with fallocate() by ncm
Parent article: Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Err. Its not clear to me what you mean by pin/unpin. But you can mark a large space as volatile, and then unmark individual pages (basically breaking the large range into smaller fragments).


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