From: Daniel Walker <danielwa@cisco.com>
To: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@intel.com>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
Michal Hocko <mhocko@suse.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-mm@kvack.org, "Khalid Mughal (khalidm)" <khalidm@cisco.com>,
"xe-kernel@external.cisco.com" <xe-kernel@external.cisco.com>
Subject: Re: computing drop-able caches
Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 10:25:26 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <56BE2396.30801@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com>
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?
I understand you want to see it, and we will release it (sometime today)
.. But the code is not sophisticated, it just counts the caches which
would be dropped reusing much of fs/drop_caches.c .
Daniel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-02-12 18:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-28 23:42 computing drop-able caches Daniel Walker
2016-01-28 23:58 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-01-29 1:03 ` Daniel Walker
2016-01-29 1:29 ` Daniel Walker
2016-01-29 1:55 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-01-29 21:21 ` Daniel Walker
2016-01-29 22:33 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-01-29 22:41 ` Rik van Riel
2016-02-08 20:57 ` Khalid Mughal (khalidm)
2016-02-10 18:04 ` Daniel Walker
2016-02-10 18:13 ` Dave Hansen
2016-02-10 19:11 ` Daniel Walker
2016-02-11 22:11 ` Rik van Riel
2016-02-12 18:01 ` Khalid Mughal (khalidm)
2016-02-12 21:46 ` Dave Hansen
2016-02-12 22:15 ` Johannes Weiner
2016-02-12 18:06 ` Dave Hansen
2016-02-12 18:15 ` Daniel Walker
2016-02-12 18:18 ` Dave Hansen
2016-02-12 18:25 ` Daniel Walker [this message]
2016-02-12 20:15 ` Daniel Walker
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