On Tue, 24 Jun 2014, Maksym Planeta wrote: > To clean the page cache one can use /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. But this > drops the whole page cache. In contrast to that sdrop_caches enables > ability to drop the page cache selectively by path string. > > Suggested-by: Thomas Knauth <thomas.kna...@gmx.de> > Signed-off-by: Maksym Planeta <mcsim.plan...@gmail.com>
Could you include some information in the commit message about why this is useful? Specifically, why you want to drop pagecache only from a specific path. The name of the sysctl is also quite non-descriptive. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
