Re: computing drop-able caches

[Daniel Walker]

On 02/12/2016 10:18 AM, Dave Hansen wrote:
> 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?

Ok, you should have the code now."kernel: fs: drop_caches: add dds 
drop_caches_count"

Daniel