From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: computing drop-able caches To: Dave Hansen , Alexander Viro , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Khalid Mughal (khalidm)" , "xe-kernel@external.cisco.com" References: <56AAA77D.7090000@cisco.com> <56BE1F2A.30103@intel.com> <56BE2135.5040407@cisco.com> <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com> From: Daniel Walker Message-ID: <56BE3D69.7080305@cisco.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:15:37 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: On 02/12/2016 10:18 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 02/12/2016 10:15 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: >> On 02/12/2016 10:06 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: >>> On 01/28/2016 03:42 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: >>>> My colleague Khalid and I are working on a patch which will provide a >>>> /proc file to output the size of the drop-able page cache. >>>> One way to implement this is to use the current drop_caches /proc >>>> routine, but instead of actually droping the caches just add >>>> up the amount. >>> Code, please. >> We have a process for release code which doesn't allow us to send it >> immediately. B > OK, how about we continue this discussion once you can release it? Ok, you should have the code now."kernel: fs: drop_caches: add dds drop_caches_count" Daniel -- 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 S1751501AbcBLUPl (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:15:41 -0500 Received: from alln-iport-4.cisco.com ([173.37.142.91]:13004 "EHLO alln-iport-4.cisco.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750898AbcBLUPj (ORCPT ); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:15:39 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: =?us-ascii?q?A0D7AQDMPL5W/5hdJa1egzqKGrE4AQ2BZ?= =?us-ascii?q?4YNAoE6OBQBAQEBAQEBgQqEQgEBBCMVQBELGAICBRYLAgIJAwIBAgFFBgEMCAE?= =?us-ascii?q?BiBaye45tAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBAQEBGAtwhRaENocygToBBI4biFyNVYFeh?= =?us-ascii?q?EODA4VSjj4eAQFChAUbhx8HgTIBAQE?= X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.22,437,1449532800"; d="scan'208";a="237077481" Subject: Re: computing drop-able caches To: Dave Hansen , Alexander Viro , Johannes Weiner , Michal Hocko , Andrew Morton , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, "Khalid Mughal (khalidm)" , "xe-kernel@external.cisco.com" References: <56AAA77D.7090000@cisco.com> <56BE1F2A.30103@intel.com> <56BE2135.5040407@cisco.com> <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com> From: Daniel Walker Message-ID: <56BE3D69.7080305@cisco.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:15:37 -0800 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.5.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, OOF, AutoReply Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 02/12/2016 10:18 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: > On 02/12/2016 10:15 AM, Daniel Walker wrote: >> On 02/12/2016 10:06 AM, Dave Hansen wrote: >>> On 01/28/2016 03:42 PM, Daniel Walker wrote: >>>> My colleague Khalid and I are working on a patch which will provide a >>>> /proc file to output the size of the drop-able page cache. >>>> One way to implement this is to use the current drop_caches /proc >>>> routine, but instead of actually droping the caches just add >>>> up the amount. >>> Code, please. >> We have a process for release code which doesn't allow us to send it >> immediately. B > OK, how about we continue this discussion once you can release it? Ok, you should have the code now."kernel: fs: drop_caches: add dds drop_caches_count" Daniel