From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Li Zefan Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] VFS: Directory level cache cleaning Date: Tue, 17 Dec 2013 17:12:52 +0800 Message-ID: <52B01594.80001@huawei.com> References: <52AFC020.10403@ubuntukylin.com> <20131217035847.GA10392@parisc-linux.org> <52AFFBE3.8020507@ubuntukylin.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Matthew Wilcox , Cong Wang , Alexander Viro , Sage Weil , , , LKML , Yunchuan Wen To: Li Wang Return-path: In-Reply-To: <52AFFBE3.8020507@ubuntukylin.com> Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On 2013/12/17 15:23, Li Wang wrote: > If we do wanna equip fadvise() with directory level page cache cleaning, > this could be solved by invoking (inode_permission() || capable(CAP_SYS_ADMIN)) before manipulating the page cache of that inode. > We think the current extension to 'drop_caches' has a complete back > compatibility, the old semantics keep unchanged, and with add-on > features to do finer granularity cache cleaning should be also > desirable. > I don't think you can extend the drop_caches interface this way. It should be used for debuging only. commit 9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232 Author: Andrew Morton Date: Sun Jan 8 01:00:39 2006 -0800 [PATCH] drop-pagecache Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. ... This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Also see http://lkml.org/lkml/2013/7/26/230 -- 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