Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262170AbVBUW4e (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:56:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262172AbVBUW4e (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:56:34 -0500 Received: from omx3-ext.sgi.com ([192.48.171.20]:60887 "EHLO omx3.sgi.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262170AbVBUW40 (ORCPT ); Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:56:26 -0500 Message-ID: <421A6856.3030604@sgi.com> Date: Mon, 21 Feb 2005 17:01:42 -0600 From: Ray Bryant User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.7.2) Gecko/20040805 Netscape/7.2 X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Andrew Morton CC: mort@wildopensource.com, pj@sgi.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hilgeman@sgi.com Subject: Re: [PATCH/RFC] A method for clearing out page cache References: <20050214154431.GS26705@localhost> <20050214193704.00d47c9f.pj@sgi.com> <20050221192721.GB26705@localhost> <20050221134220.2f5911c9.akpm@osdl.org> <421A607B.4050606@sgi.com> <20050221144108.40eba4d9.akpm@osdl.org> In-Reply-To: <20050221144108.40eba4d9.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1344 Lines: 36 Andrew Morton wrote: > Ray Bryant wrote: >> >>We did it this way because it was easier to get it into SLES9 that way. >>But there is no particular reason that we couldn't use a system call. >>It's just that we figured adding system calls is hard. > > > aarggh. This is why you should target kernel.org kernels first. Now we > risk ending up with poor old suse carrying an obsolete interface and > application developers have to be able to cater for both interfaces. > I agree, but time-to-market decisions overrode that. Anyway, everyone uses a program called "bcfree" to actually do the buffer-cache freeing, so changing the interface is not as bad as all that. Let us put something together along these lines and we will get back to you. Thanks, -- Best Regards, Ray ----------------------------------------------- Ray Bryant 512-453-9679 (work) 512-507-7807 (cell) raybry@sgi.com raybry@austin.rr.com The box said: "Requires Windows 98 or better", so I installed Linux. ----------------------------------------------- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/