Re: computing drop-able caches

From: Dave Hansen
Date: Fri Feb 12 2016 - 13:18:27 EST


On 02/12/2016 10:15 AM, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On 02/12/2016 10:06 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
>> On 01/28/2016 03:42 PM, Daniel Walker wrote:
>>> My colleague Khalid and I are working on a patch which will provide a
>>> /proc file to output the size of the drop-able page cache.
>>> One way to implement this is to use the current drop_caches /proc
>>> routine, but instead of actually droping the caches just add
>>> up the amount.
>> Code, please.
>
> We have a process for release code which doesn't allow us to send it
> immediately. B

OK, how about we continue this discussion once you can release it?