Dan Magenheimer wrote: > Most important, cleancache is "ephemeral". Pages which are copied into > cleancache have an indefinite lifetime which is completely unknowable > by the kernel and so may or may not still be in cleancache at any later time. > Thus, as its name implies, cleancache is not suitable for dirty pages. The > pseudo-RAM has complete discretion over what pages to preserve and what > pages to discard and when. Fwiw, the feature sounds useful to userspace too, for those things with memory hungry caches like web browsers. Any plans to make it available to userspace? Thanks, -- Jamie -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
