Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:01:42 -0600 | From | Ray Bryant <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > Ray Bryant <raybry@sgi.com> wrote:
>> >>We did it this way because it was easier to get it into SLES9 that way. >>But there is no particular reason that we couldn't use a system call. >>It's just that we figured adding system calls is hard. > > > aarggh. This is why you should target kernel.org kernels first. Now we > risk ending up with poor old suse carrying an obsolete interface and > application developers have to be able to cater for both interfaces. >
I agree, but time-to-market decisions overrode that. Anyway, everyone uses a program called "bcfree" to actually do the buffer-cache freeing, so changing the interface is not as bad as all that.
Let us put something together along these lines and we will get back to you.
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