On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Linus Torvalds wrote:

On Sat, 20 Jul 2002, Rik van Riel wrote:

quoted

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
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