From: Chris Down <chris@chrisdown.name>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-team@fb.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only
Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2019 11:09:53 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191101110953.GC690103@chrisdown.name> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191101110901.GB690103@chrisdown.name>
Chris Down writes:
>There is evidence that this has already caused confusion[0] for many,
>judging by the number of views and votes. I think the reward is higher
>than stated here, since it makes the intent and lack of persistent API
>in the API clearer, and less likely to cause confusion in future.
>
>0: https://unix.stackexchange.com/q/17936/10762
s/persistent API/persistent state/
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-01 11:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-10-31 22:16 [PATCH] kernel: sysctl: make drop_caches write-only Johannes Weiner
2019-10-31 23:28 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-01 11:09 ` Chris Down
2019-11-01 11:09 ` Chris Down [this message]
2019-11-01 14:45 ` Johannes Weiner
2019-11-01 18:59 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-01 19:24 ` Chris Down
2019-11-01 19:29 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-01 19:35 ` Andrew Morton
2019-11-02 15:55 ` Alexey Dobriyan
2019-11-03 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2019-11-01 10:58 ` Chris Down
2019-11-04 10:37 ` David Hildenbrand
2019-11-04 13:25 ` Vlastimil Babka
2019-11-05 6:20 ` Michal Hocko
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