On Fri, Jan 17, 2025 at 04:41:16PM +0000, Jaegeuk Kim wrote: > If users clearly know which file-backed pages to reclaim in system view, they > can use this ioctl() to register in advance and reclaim all at once later. > > To MM and others, > > I'd like to propose this API in F2FS only, since > 1) the use-case is quite limited in Android at the moment. Once it's generall > accepted with more use-cases, happy to propose a generic API such as fadvise. > Please chime in, if there's any needs. > > 2) it's file-backed pages which requires to maintain the list of inode objects. > I'm not sure this fits in MM tho, also happy to listen to any feedback. You didn't cc the patches to linux-mm, so that's a bad start. I don't understand how this is different from MADV_COLD. Please explain.
