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SubjectRe: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge
On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0200
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> wrote:

> On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have
> > some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM
> > *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but
> > it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent
> > it.
>
> I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation
> image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible.

hm, that sounds smart.

> Would that be a valid use-case?

I'd say so, unless we change the kernel to do that internally. We do
have the hibernation-specific shrink_all_memory() in the vmscan code.
We didn't see fit to document _why_ that exists, but IIRC it's there to
create enough free memory for hibernation to be able to successfully
complete, but no more.

Who owns hibernaton nowadays? Rafael, I guess?


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