From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261670AbVHBRKw (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:10:52 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261673AbVHBRKw (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:10:52 -0400 Received: from galileo.bork.org ([134.117.69.57]:11419 "HELO galileo.bork.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261670AbVHBRKu (ORCPT ); Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:10:50 -0400 Date: Tue, 2 Aug 2005 13:10:50 -0400 From: Martin Hicks To: Ingo Molnar Cc: Andrew Morton , mort@sgi.com, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@suse.de Subject: Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim() Message-ID: <20050802171050.GG26803@localhost> References: <20050801113913.GA7000@elte.hu> <20050801102903.378da54f.akpm@osdl.org> <20050801195426.GA17548@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20050801195426.GA17548@elte.hu> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Andrew Morton wrote: > > > > We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack, > > > > That would be more appropriate. > > > > (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to > > "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this > > noed+zone's policy") > > lets do that as a sysctl hack. It would be useful for debugging purposes > anyway. But i'm not sure whether it's the same issue - Martin? (Sorry..I was on vacation yesterday) Yes, this is the same issue with a different way of making it happen. Setting a zone's policy allows reclaim to happen automatically. I'll send in a patch to add a sysctl to do the manual dumping of pagecache really soon. mh -- Martin Hicks || Silicon Graphics Inc. || mort@sgi.com