Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 20 Jul 2002 17:41:39 -0300 (BRT) | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][1/2] return values shrink_dcache_memory etc |
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On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote: > > > > this patch, against current 2.5.27, builds on the patch that let > > kmem_cache_shrink return the number of pages freed. This value > > is used as the return value for shrink_dcache_memory and friends.
> I'd be much more interested in the "put the cache pages on the dirty list, > and have memory pressure push them out in LRU order" approach. Somebody > already had preliminary patches. > > That gets _rid_ of dcache_shrink() and friends, instead of making them > return meaningless numbers.
OK, I'll try to forward-port Ed's code to do that from 2.4 to 2.5 this weekend...
regards,
Rik -- Bravely reimplemented by the knights who say "NIH".
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