[PATCH] drop-pagecache

Add /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches.  When written to, this will cause the kernel to
discard as much pagecache and/or reclaimable slab objects as it can.  THis
operation requires root permissions.

It won't drop dirty data, so the user should run `sync' first.

Caveats:

a) Holds inode_lock for exorbitant amounts of time.

b) Needs to be taught about NUMA nodes: propagate these all the way through
   so the discarding can be controlled on a per-node basis.

This is a debugging feature: useful for getting consistent results between
filesystem benchmarks.  We could possibly put it under a config option, but
it's less than 300 bytes.

Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/mm/truncate.c b/mm/truncate.c
index 7dee327..b1a463d 100644
--- a/mm/truncate.c
+++ b/mm/truncate.c
@@ -249,7 +249,6 @@ unlock:
 				break;
 		}
 		pagevec_release(&pvec);
-		cond_resched();
 	}
 	return ret;
 }