Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 27 Jun 2014 12:48:34 +1000 | From | Dave Chinner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Add a feature to drop caches selectively |
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On Thu, Jun 26, 2014 at 09:13:19AM +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote: > 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?
Just add the dev/mntpt to /etc/fstab and add "user" to the configuration and the need for root goes away.
Cheers,
Dave. -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com
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