On Tue, 25 Nov 2014 15:51:58 +0900 Chanho Min <chanho....@lge.com> wrote:
> The faultaround improves the file read performance, whereas pages which > can be dropped by drop_caches are reduced. On some systems, The amount of > freeable pages under memory pressure is more important than read > performance. The faultaround pages *are* freeable. Perhaps you meant "free" here. Please tell us a great deal about the problem which you are trying to solve. What sort of system, what sort of workload, what is bad about the behaviour which you are observing, etc. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/