On 06/26/2014 08:13 AM, Artem Bityutskiy wrote:
On Thu, 2014-06-26 at 11:06 +1000, Dave Chinner wrote:
Your particular use case can be handled by directing your benchmark
at a filesystem mount point and unmounting the filesystem in between
benchmark runs. There is no ned to adding kernel functionality for
somethign that can be so easily acheived by other means, especially
in benchmark environments where *everything* is tightly controlled.
If I was a benchmark writer, I would not be willing running it as root
to be able to mount/unmount, I would not be willing to require the
customer creating special dedicated partitions for the benchmark,
because this is too user-unfriendly. Or do I make incorrect assumptions?
But why a sysctl then? And also don't see a point for that at all, why
can't the benchmark use posix_fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED)?
Cheers,
Bernd
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