From 9d0243bca345d5ce25d3f4b74b7facb3a6df1232 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Andrew Morton Date: Sun, 8 Jan 2006 01:00:39 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] drop-pagecache Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. When written to, this will cause the kernel to discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can. THis operation requires root permissions. It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first. Caveats: a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time. b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis. This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between filesystem benchmarks. We could possibly put it under a config option, but it's less than 300 bytes. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- fs/Makefile | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'fs/Makefile') diff --git a/fs/Makefile b/fs/Makefile index 73676111ebb..35e9aec608e 100644 --- a/fs/Makefile +++ b/fs/Makefile @@ -10,7 +10,7 @@ obj-y := open.o read_write.o file_table.o buffer.o bio.o super.o \ ioctl.o readdir.o select.o fifo.o locks.o dcache.o inode.o \ attr.o bad_inode.o file.o filesystems.o namespace.o aio.o \ seq_file.o xattr.o libfs.o fs-writeback.o mpage.o direct-io.o \ - ioprio.o pnode.o + ioprio.o pnode.o drop_caches.o obj-$(CONFIG_INOTIFY) += inotify.o obj-$(CONFIG_EPOLL) += eventpoll.o -- cgit v1.2.3