Re: [patch] remove sys_set_zone_reclaim()

[Martin Hicks]

On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 09:54:26PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> 
> * Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > >  We could perhaps add a CAP_SYS_ADMIN-only sysctl for this hack,
> > 
> > That would be more appropriate.
> > 
> > (I'm still not sure what happened to the idea of adding a call to 
> > "clear out this node+zone's pagecache now" rather than "set this 
> > noed+zone's policy")
> 
> lets do that as a sysctl hack. It would be useful for debugging purposes 
> anyway. But i'm not sure whether it's the same issue - Martin?

(Sorry..I was on vacation yesterday)

Yes, this is the same issue with a different way of making it happen.
Setting a zone's policy allows reclaim to happen automatically.

I'll send in a patch to add a sysctl to do the manual dumping of
pagecache really soon.

mh

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