Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 24 Jun 2014 14:59:37 -0700 (PDT) | From | David Rientjes <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Add a feature to drop caches selectively |
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On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Maksym Planeta wrote:
> To clean the page cache one can use /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. But this > drops the whole page cache. In contrast to that sdrop_caches enables > ability to drop the page cache selectively by path string. > > Suggested-by: Thomas Knauth <thomas.knauth@gmx.de> > Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mcsim.planeta@gmail.com>
Could you include some information in the commit message about why this is useful? Specifically, why you want to drop pagecache only from a specific path.
The name of the sysctl is also quite non-descriptive.
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