Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Posted Jun 7, 2012 22:15 UTC (Thu) by benh (subscriber, #43720)
Parent article: Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Does it work with anonymous memory ?

Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Posted Jun 8, 2012 0:31 UTC (Fri) by ncm (guest, #165) [Link] (1 responses)

... and, can you mark a big space as volatile, and then pin and unpin individual pages?

Volatile ranges with fallocate()

Posted Jun 8, 2012 18:17 UTC (Fri) by jstultz (subscriber, #212) [Link]

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).