Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-2.6-block: deactivating pagecache for benchmarks | From | Badari Pulavarty <> | Date | Fri, 02 Dec 2005 14:33:42 -0800 |
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On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 13:44 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > 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. > > So I guess you got lucky.
Wow !! Thank you. Its not that often, I get lucky :)
Thanks, Badari
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