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FromMike Frysinger <>
DateWed, 27 Apr 2011 14:25:17 -0400
SubjectRe: [PATCH v2] fadvise: introduce POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED_FS
On Wed, Apr 27, 2011 at 14:13, Andrea Righi wrote:
> Introduce a new fadvise flag to drop page cache pages of a single
> filesystem.
>
> At the moment it is possible to drop page cache pages via
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_pagecache or via posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED).
>
> The first method drops the whole page cache while the second can be used
> to drop page cache pages of a single file descriptor. However, there's
> not a simple way to drop all the pages of a filesystem (we could scan
> all the file descriptors and use posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED), but
> this solution obviously doesn't scale well).

what if you open the mount point and use POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED on that
dir handle ? if you required write access for that level, it'd also
implicitly take care of the permission issue. but maybe this is just
trying to fit existing code in the wrong way.
-mike


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