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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: Directory level cache cleaning
On 2013/12/17 15:23, Li Wang wrote:
> If we do wanna equip fadvise() with directory level page cache cleaning,
> this could be solved by invoking (inode_permission() || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) before manipulating the page cache of that inode.
> We think the current extension to 'drop_caches' has a complete back
> compatibility, the old semantics keep unchanged, and with add-on
> features to do finer granularity cache cleaning should be also
> desirable.
>

I don't think you can extend the drop_caches interface this way. It should
be used for debuging only.

commit 9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232
Author: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Date: Sun Jan 8 01:00:39 2006 -0800

[PATCH] drop-pagecache

Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis
operation requires root permissions.

...

This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.

Also see http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/230



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