linux-kernel - Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] f2fs: add a sysfs entry to request donate file-backed pages

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Message-ID: <61e5cacc-907d-4b86-a26a-63a31cdadd61@kernel.org>
Date: Mon, 10 Feb 2025 17:59:28 +0800
From: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>
To: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
 linux-f2fs-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net
Cc: chao@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [f2fs-dev] [PATCH 2/2 v2] f2fs: add a sysfs entry to request
 donate file-backed pages

On 2/8/25 00:28, Jaegeuk Kim via Linux-f2fs-devel wrote:
> 1. ioctl(fd1, F2FS_IOC_DONATE_RANGE, {0,3});
> 2. ioctl(fd2, F2FS_IOC_DONATE_RANGE, {1,2});
> 3. ioctl(fd3, F2FS_IOC_DONATE_RANGE, {3,1});
> 4. echo 1024 > /sys/fs/f2fs/tuning/reclaim_caches_kb
> 
> This gives a way to reclaim file-backed pages by iterating all f2fs mounts until
> reclaiming 1MB page cache ranges, registered by #1, #2, and #3.
> 
> 5. cat /sys/fs/f2fs/tuning/reclaim_caches_kb
> -> gives total number of registered file ranges.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Jaegeuk Kim <jaegeuk@...nel.org>

Reviewed-by: Chao Yu <chao@...nel.org>

Thanks,