On Sun, Sep 30, 2007 at 08:03:51PM +0200, Soeren Sandmann wrote:
> This patch adds the ability to drop mapped pages with
> /proc/sys/vm/drop_caches. This is useful to get repeatable
> measurements of startup time for applications.
>
> Without it, pages that are mapped in already-running applications will
> not get dropped, so the time measured will not be a true cold-cache
> time.
>
> Rik pointed out that "be_atomic" is a bit pointless since there is a
> race on SMP anyway where pages can be added. However, it is there in
> the existing code, so I added it for the new code as well. Does anyone
> know why it's there?
this cset added it (and has a pretty explanatory commit msg)
Dave
commit fc9a07e7bf1a76e710f5df017abb07628db1781d
Author: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Date: Sun Jul 15 23:38:14 2007 -0700
invalidate_mapping_pages(): add cond_resched
invalidate_mapping_pages() can sometimes take a long time (millions of pages
to free). Long enough for the softlockup detector to trigger.
We used to have a cond_resched() in there but I took it out because the
drop_caches code calls invalidate_mapping_pages() under inode_lock.
The patch adds a nasty flag and puts the cond_resched() back.
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