Add support for cachestat syscall as mincore alternative #43
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This adds support for the cachestat syscall introduced in kernel 6.5 by @nhatsmrt as an alternative to mmap/mincore. I've tried to make sure that the output is fully backward-compatible and users have to explicitly opt-in to the mechanism. The only output that's changed is the
-jsonoutput where I've added the newly available stats if and only-cachestatis chosen.There's some good background on the new syscall here. I guess the headline is this:
I'm going to run some more tests over the next few days, but it looks like 15GB ish is the sweet spot where the new syscall starts to make a difference.