Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Fri, 2 Dec 2005 13:44:31 -0800 | | From | Andrew Morton <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-2.6-block: deactivating pagecache for benchmarks |
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Badari Pulavarty <pbadari@us.ibm.com> wrote: > > Wondering, if this shrinks shared memory pages (since they are backed by > tmpfs) ? (which is not what I want).
It'll reclaim unused pagecache pages. What effect that has on idioticfs^Wtmpfs pages depends on the state of the pages. If they're attached to tmpfs inodes then they won't be reclaimed because they have no backing store. If they're attached to swapcache then they won't be reclaimed because they have no superblock.
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