linux-kernel - Re: userspace pagecache management tool

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Message-ID: <45EEA456.9020907@draigBrady.com>
Date:	Wed, 07 Mar 2007 11:39:02 +0000
From:	Pádraig Brady <P@...igBrady.com>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	bert hubert <bert.hubert@...herlabs.nl>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@...hat.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: userspace pagecache management tool

Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 12:10:49 +0000
> P__draig Brady <P@...igBrady.com> wrote:
>> Perhaps one could possibly just evict pages with _mapcount==0 ?
> 
> That is the present fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED) behaviour.

Ah right. It doesn't invalidate page_mapped() pages.
If that means it doesn't invalidate pages previously cached
by other processes, then great.

However I think what I meant though was fadvise(FADV_DONTNEED)
should only invalidate pages where page_count()<=1

>From include/linux/mm.h

" For pages belonging to inodes, the page_count() is the number of
  attaches, plus 1 if `private' contains something, plus one for
  the page cache itself."

cheers,
Pádraig.

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