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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: cgel.zte@gmail.com
Cc: viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, hughd@google.com,
	ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] drop caches: skip tmpfs and ramfs
Date: Sat, 25 Jun 2022 02:19:44 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YrbTMJAuwY59CwRS@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220624182121.995294-1-ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>

On Fri, Jun 24, 2022 at 06:21:21PM +0000, cgel.zte@gmail.com wrote:
> From: Ran Xiaokai <ran.xiaokai@zte.com.cn>
> 
> All tmpfs and ramfs pages have PG_dirty bit set
> once they are allocated and added to the pagecache。So pages
> can not be freed from tmpfs or ramfs. So skip tmpfs and ramfs
> when drop caches.

Hard coding magic constants in VFS code is a bad idea.  If you have
numbers to justify this change (which should go into this commit log),
it can be properly solved by a flag on the super block,
file_system_type or even better bdi.


  reply	other threads:[~2022-06-25  9:19 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-06-24 18:21 cgel.zte
2022-06-25  9:19 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-06-25  9:31 ` Gao Xiang

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