From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-ob0-f176.google.com (mail-ob0-f176.google.com [209.85.214.176]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3FED86B0253 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 15:15:40 -0500 (EST) Received: by mail-ob0-f176.google.com with SMTP id gc3so36320814obb.3 for ; Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:15:40 -0800 (PST) Received: from alln-iport-4.cisco.com (alln-iport-4.cisco.com. [173.37.142.91]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id fj9si17170807oeb.7.2016.02.12.12.15.39 for (version=TLS1_2 cipher=ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 bits=128/128); Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:15:39 -0800 (PST) Subject: Re: computing drop-able caches References: <56AAA77D.7090000@cisco.com> <56BE1F2A.30103@intel.com> <56BE2135.5040407@cisco.com> <56BE21EC.6030708@intel.com> From: Daniel Walker Message-ID: <56BE3D69.7080305@cisco.com> Date: Fri, 12 Feb 2016 12:15:37 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <56BE21EC.6030708@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 10:18 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? Ok, you should have the code now."kernel: fs: drop_caches: add dds drop_caches_count" Daniel -- 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