Re: [PATCH] add some drop_caches documentation and info messsge

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On Wednesday 24 of October 2012 14:13:03 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Oct 2012 23:06:00 +0200
> Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Oct 24, 2012 at 01:48:36PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > Well who knows. Could be that people's vm *does* suck. Or they have
> > > some particularly peculiar worklosd or requirement[*]. Or their VM
> > > *used* to suck, and the drop_caches is not really needed any more but
> > > it's there in vendor-provided code and they can't practically prevent
> > > it.
> > 
> > I have drop_caches in my suspend-to-disk script so that the hibernation
> > image is kept at minimum and suspend times are as small as possible.
> 
> hm, that sounds smart.
> 
> > Would that be a valid use-case?
> 
> I'd say so, unless we change the kernel to do that internally.  We do
> have the hibernation-specific shrink_all_memory() in the vmscan code. 
> We didn't see fit to document _why_ that exists, but IIRC it's there to
> create enough free memory for hibernation to be able to successfully
> complete, but no more.

That's correct.

> Who owns hibernaton nowadays?  Rafael, I guess?

I'm still maintaining it.

Thanks,
Rafael


-- 
I speak only for myself.
Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.

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