From: Bodo Eggert <harvested.in.lkml@7eggert.dyndns.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Dirk Henning Gerdes <mail@dirk-gerdes.de>,
axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] linux-2.6-block: deactivating pagecache for benchmarks
Date: Sat, 03 Dec 2005 03:05:34 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1EiMmN-0001a6-I7@be1.lrz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <5f7UE-3FH-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> + .procname = "drop-pagecache",
> + .data = NULL,
> + .maxlen = sizeof(int),
> + .mode = 0644,
1) Shouldn't this be a trigger? Reading from a trigger doesn't make sense,
especially when triggering on a read. .mode = 0200?
2) If you pass an int, wouldn't a bitmask selecting what to free make sense?
(off cause -1 == everything)
Maybe this would be overengineered.
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Ich danke GMX dafür, die Verwendung meiner Adressen mittels per SPF
verbreiteten Lügen zu sabotieren.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-12-03 2:03 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <5f08L-Um-413@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-01 22:48 ` Bodo Eggert
[not found] ` <5f7UE-3FH-13@gated-at.bofh.it>
2005-12-03 2:05 ` Bodo Eggert [this message]
2005-12-01 13:17 Dirk Henning Gerdes
2005-12-01 13:29 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-12-01 13:43 ` Dirk Henning Gerdes
2005-12-01 14:36 ` Jens Axboe
2005-12-02 1:25 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02 1:34 ` Jeff Garzik
2005-12-02 19:19 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-02 19:17 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-02 21:24 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-02 21:44 ` Andrew Morton
2005-12-02 22:33 ` Badari Pulavarty
2005-12-05 2:13 ` Rob Landley
2005-12-05 16:20 ` Lee Revell
2005-12-05 17:28 ` Rob Landley
2005-12-05 16:54 ` Badari Pulavarty
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