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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: Directory level cache cleaning
This extension is just add-on extension. The original debugging
capability is still there, and more flexible debugging is now allowed.

On 2013/12/17 17:12, Li Zefan wrote:
> 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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