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Message-ID: <877idysbs3.fsf@basil.nowhere.org>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2008 13:07:08 +0200
From: Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>
To: "Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@...il.com>
Cc: "Kernel Linux" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: calculate actual state of caches wrt set of files/dirs, without modifying caches ?
"Yakov Lerner" <iler.ml@...il.com> writes:
> Is it possible to calculate the following thing from userspace:
> Some benchmarking program has list of filenames and dirnames.
> Can it calculate how many of inodes and data blocks of those items are *cached*
> vs how many are not, without modifying existing
> status of inode caches & buffer caches ?
For inodes/dentries it is not possible AFAIK (short of taking a kernel
crash dump and walking the data structures), but for file data you can mmap
the file without accessing it and then check with mincore() for each page.
-Andi
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