From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 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 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, Ed Tomlinson List-ID: 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". http://www.surriel.com/ http://distro.conectiva.com/ -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/