linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Add a feature to drop caches selectively

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Date:	Fri, 27 Jun 2014 09:09:33 +0000
From:	"Bityutskiy, Artem" <artem.bityutskiy@...el.com>
To:	"ms@...d.de" <ms@...d.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] sysctl: Add a feature to drop caches selectively

On Fri, 2014-06-27 at 12:08 +0300, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
> To make 100% sure you'd not only need to drop VFS-level caches but also
> file-system-level caches. Indeed, file-systems have their own rather
Sorry, I wanted to say "rather complex" here
> buffers for different indexing data-structures, etc. The unmount/mount
> sequence takes care of that.
> 

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Artem Bityutskiy
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