From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from psmtp.com (na3sys010amx195.postini.com [74.125.245.195]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with SMTP id E68426B0062 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:18:51 -0400 (EDT) Received: from /spool/local by e33.co.us.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:18:51 -0600 Received: from d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.107]) by d03dlp01.boulder.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4824C1FF003C for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:18:47 -0600 (MDT) Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (d03av02.boulder.ibm.com [9.17.195.168]) by d03relay05.boulder.ibm.com (8.13.8/8.13.8/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id q9OLIkYu229244 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:18:46 -0600 Received: from d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (loopback [127.0.0.1]) by d03av02.boulder.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.13.1/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id q9OLIjiI026140 for ; Wed, 24 Oct 2012 15:18:46 -0600 Message-ID: <50885B2E.5050500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:18:38 -0700 From: Dave Hansen MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge References: <20121012125708.GJ10110@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20121023164546.747e90f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121024062938.GA6119@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20121024125439.c17a510e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <50884F63.8030606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121024134836.a28d223a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121024210600.GA17037@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20121024210600.GA17037@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: To: Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML On 10/24/2012 02:06 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have >> some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM >> *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but >> it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent >> it. > > I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation > image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible. > > Would that be a valid use-case? Sounds fairly valid to me. But, it's also one that would not be harmed or disrupted in any way because of a single additional printk() during each suspend-to-disk operation. -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965361Ab2JXVSz (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:18:55 -0400 Received: from e38.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.159]:55772 "EHLO e38.co.us.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964884Ab2JXVSy (ORCPT ); Wed, 24 Oct 2012 17:18:54 -0400 Message-ID: <50885B2E.5050500@linux.vnet.ibm.com> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2012 14:18:38 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:15.0) Gecko/20120912 Thunderbird/15.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Borislav Petkov , Andrew Morton , Michal Hocko , linux-mm@kvack.org, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , KOSAKI Motohiro , LKML Subject: Re: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge References: <20121012125708.GJ10110@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20121023164546.747e90f6.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121024062938.GA6119@dhcp22.suse.cz> <20121024125439.c17a510e.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <50884F63.8030606@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20121024134836.a28d223a.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20121024210600.GA17037@liondog.tnic> In-Reply-To: <20121024210600.GA17037@liondog.tnic> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Content-Scanned: Fidelis XPS MAILER x-cbid: 12102421-5518-0000-0000-000008B37BFB Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 10/24/2012 02:06 PM, Borislav Petkov wrote: > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: >> Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have >> some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM >> *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but >> it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent >> it. > > I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation > image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible. > > Would that be a valid use-case? Sounds fairly valid to me. But, it's also one that would not be harmed or disrupted in any way because of a single additional printk() during each suspend-to-disk operation.