From: Martin Hicks <mort@sgi.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
mort@sgi.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()
Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:10:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050802171050.GG26803@localhost> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050801195426.GA17548@elte.hu>
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
>
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
>
> > > We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,
> >
> > That would be more appropriate.
> >
> > (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to
> > "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this
> > noed+zone's policy")
>
> lets do that as a sysctl hack. It would be useful for debugging purposes
> anyway. But i'm not sure whether it's the same issue - Martin?
(Sorry..I was on vacation yesterday)
Yes, this is the same issue with a different way of making it happen.
Setting a zone's policy allows reclaim to happen automatically.
I'll send in a patch to add a sysctl to do the manual dumping of
pagecache really soon.
mh
--
Martin Hicks || Silicon Graphics Inc. || mort@sgi.com
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-02 17:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-01 11:39 [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() Ingo Molnar
2005-08-01 17:29 ` Andrew Morton
2005-08-01 19:54 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-02 17:10 ` Martin Hicks [this message]
2005-08-02 21:07 ` Ingo Molnar
2005-08-03 13:56 ` [PATCH] VM: add vm.free_node_memory sysctl Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 13:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:15 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:15 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:24 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:24 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:38 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 14:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 14:56 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-03 19:59 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-03 19:59 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-03 20:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-03 20:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 17:45 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-05 17:45 ` Ray Bryant
2005-08-05 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-05 21:48 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-15 16:05 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-15 16:05 ` Martin Hicks
2005-08-01 22:48 ` [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() Christoph Lameter
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