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From: Qu Wenruo <wqu@suse.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Cc: linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, fstests@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] common/btrfs: use _scratch_cycle_mount to ensure all page caches are dropped
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2023 07:57:37 +0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5790cd5a-04d9-bfe9-a8cc-0c09f784222d@suse.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ZIHGb+KyYW72MVzp@infradead.org>



On 2023/6/8 20:15, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 08, 2023 at 07:48:36PM +0800, Qu Wenruo wrote:
>>   	echo 3 > /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches
>> +	# Above drop_caches doesn't seem to drop every pages on aarch64 with
>> +	# 64K page size.
>> +	# So here as a workaround, cycle mount the SCRATCH_MNT to ensure
>> +	# the cache are dropped.
>> +	_scratch_cycle_mount
> 
> The _scratch_cycle_mount looks ok to me, but if we do that, there is
> really no point in doing the drop_caches as well.

Yep, we can remove that line. It's mostly a reminder for me to dig out 
why that drop_caches doesn't work as expected.

Thanks,
Qu

  reply	other threads:[~2023-06-08 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-06-08 11:48 [PATCH RFC] common/btrfs: use _scratch_cycle_mount to ensure all page caches are dropped Qu Wenruo
2023-06-08 12:15 ` Christoph Hellwig
2023-06-08 23:57   ` Qu Wenruo [this message]
2023-06-10  6:46     ` Zorro Lang
2023-06-10  7:25       ` Qu Wenruo
2023-06-19 16:13 ` Filipe Manana
2023-06-20  1:07   ` Qu Wenruo
2023-06-20  9:13     ` Filipe Manana

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