From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>
To: Li Wang <liwang@ubuntukylin.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Cong Wang <xiyou.wangcong@gmail.com>,
Zefan Li <lizefan@huawei.com>, Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Fadvise: Directory level page cache cleaning support
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2013 11:18:15 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <52C1C6F7.8010809@intel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <cover.1388409686.git.liwang@ubuntukylin.com>
On 12/30/2013 05:45 AM, Li Wang wrote:
> This patch extends 'fadvise' to support directory level page cache
> cleaning. The call to posix_fadvise(fd, 0, 0, POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)
> with 'fd' referring to a directory will recursively reclaim page cache
> entries of files inside 'fd'. For secruity concern, those inodes
> which the caller does not own appropriate permissions will not
> be manipulated.
Why is this necessary to do in the kernel? Why not leave it to
userspace to walk the filesystem(s)?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-12-30 19:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-30 13:45 [PATCH 0/3] Fadvise: Directory level page cache cleaning support Li Wang
2013-12-30 13:45 ` [PATCH 1/3] VFS: Add the declaration of shrink_pagecache_parent Li Wang
2013-12-30 13:45 ` [PATCH 2/3] Add shrink_pagecache_parent Li Wang
2014-01-02 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2014-01-06 13:30 ` Dave Chinner
2014-01-08 2:06 ` Li Wang
2014-01-15 0:22 ` Dave Chinner
2013-12-30 13:45 ` [PATCH 3/3] Fadvise: Add the ability for directory level page cache cleaning Li Wang
2013-12-30 14:57 ` [PATCH 0/3] Fadvise: Directory level page cache cleaning support Matthew Wilcox
2013-12-30 19:18 ` Dave Hansen [this message]
2013-12-30 19:40 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-12-30 21:33 ` Dave Hansen
2014-01-02 12:44 ` Li Wang
2014-01-02 18:35 ` Dave Hansen
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