On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Andrew Morton wrote:

Hugh Dickins [off-list ref] wrote:

quoted

(hmm, does lowmem shortage exert
 any pressure on highmem cache these days, I wonder?);

It does, indirectly - when we reclaim an unused inode we also shoot down
all that inode's pagecache.

Not much help in the tmpfs case, where the inode cannot get to be unused
without being deleted.

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