From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f170.google.com (mail-ob0-f170.google.com [209.85.214.170]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 78FFE6B0009 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 13:15:19 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ob0-f170.google.com with SMTP id wb13so133533946obb.1 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:15:19 -0800 (PST) Received: from rcdn-iport-5.cisco.com (rcdn-iport-5.cisco.com. [173.37.86.76]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id g3si16580299obr.44.2016.02.12.10.15.18 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:15:18 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: computing drop-able caches References: <56AAA77D.7090000@cisco.com> <56BE1F2A.30103@intel.com> From: Daniel Walker Message-ID: <56BE2135.5040407@cisco.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:15:17 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BE1F2A.30103@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org List-ID: 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" 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 -- 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