Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache

[Nish Aravamudan <nish.aravamudan@gmail.com>]

On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:27:21 -0500, Martin Hicks
<mort@wildopensource.com> wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I've made a bunch of changes that Paul suggested.  I've also responded
> to his concerns further down.  Paul correctly pointed out that this
> patch uses some helper functions that are part of the cpusets patch.  I
> should have mentioned this before.

<snip>

> This patch introduces a new sysctl for NUMA systems that tries to drop
> as much of the page cache as possible from a set of nodes.  The
> motivation for this patch is for setting up High Performance Computing
> jobs, where initial memory placement is very important to overall
> performance.

<snip>

> +       /* wait for the kernel threads to complete */
> +       while (atomic_read(&num_toss_threads_active) > 0) {
> +               __set_current_state(TASK_INTERRUPTIBLE);
> +               schedule_timeout(10);
> +       }

<snip>

Would it be possible to use msleep_interruptible() here? Or is it a
strict check every 10 ticks, regardless of HZ? Could a comment be
inserted indicating
which is the case?

Thanks,
Nish