Re: [PATCH V6 6/8] fs/xfs: Combine xfs_diflags_to_linux() and xfs_diflags_to_iflags()

Dave Chinner
2020-04-10T00:27:47Z

On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 02:40:31PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 09, 2020 at 10:49:21AM +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
> > > Christoph did say:
> > >
> > > "A reasonably smart application can try to evict itself."
> > >
> > > -- https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20200403072731.GA24176@lst.de/
> >
> > I'd love to know how an unprivileged application can force the
> > eviction of an inode from cache.
>
> Where did the "unprivileged" suddenly come from?

I'm assuming that applications are being run without the root
permissions needed to run drop_caches. i.e. the apps are
unprivileged, and therefore can't brute force inode cache eviction.
That's why I'm asking what mechanism these applications are using to
evict inodes on demand without requiring elevated privileges,
because I can't see how they'd acheive this...

Cheers,

Dave.
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Dave Chinner
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