Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Add a feature to drop caches selectively | From | Artem Bityutskiy <> | Date | Thu, 26 Jun 2014 09:13:19 +0300 |
| |
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:06 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote: > Your particular use case can be handled by directing your benchmark > at a filesystem mount point and unmounting the filesystem in between > benchmark runs. There is no ned to adding kernel functionality for > somethign that can be so easily acheived by other means, especially > in benchmark environments where *everything* is tightly controlled.
If I was a benchmark writer, I would not be willing running it as root to be able to mount/unmount, I would not be willing to require the customer creating special dedicated partitions for the benchmark, because this is too user-unfriendly. Or do I make incorrect assumptions?
Not that I need this syscall and trying to sell the idea to anyone, just trying to understand the alternative you suggested.
-- Best Regards, Artem Bityutskiy
| |