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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Martin Hicks <mort@wildopensource.com>,
	pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, raybry@sgi.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache
Date: Tue, 1 Mar 2005 22:54:36 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050301215436.GC2129@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050221134220.2f5911c9.akpm@osdl.org>

Hi!

> So what it comes down to is
> 
> sys_free_node_memory(long node_id, long pages_to_make_free, long what_to_free)
> 
> where `what_to_free' consists of a bunch of bitflags (unmapped pagecache,
> mapped pagecache, anonymous memory, slab, ...).

Heh, swsusp needs shrink_all_memory() and I'd like to use something
more generic as shrink_all_memory() does not seem to work properly. I
guess that loop over all node_ids should be easy ;-).

								Pavel
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-03-01 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-02-14 15:44 [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache Martin Hicks
2005-02-15  3:37 ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-16 19:56   ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 19:27   ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-21 21:42     ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 22:12       ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28         ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:52           ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-21 22:28       ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-21 22:41         ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-21 23:01           ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22  7:53           ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22  8:07             ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22  8:24               ` Ingo Molnar
2005-02-22 17:29                 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-22 11:26             ` Paul Jackson
2005-02-22 18:45               ` Andrew Morton
2005-02-22 18:59                 ` Martin Hicks
2005-02-22 19:03                 ` Ray Bryant
2005-02-23  0:14                 ` Paul Jackson
2005-03-01 21:54       ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-02-21 21:52     ` Nish Aravamudan

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