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by madushan1000 271 days ago
Why not though, from what I can see from the docs, these databases supposed to be static and read only. At least when you use it on a device.
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Page cache reclamation is mostly single threaded. It's much simpler, than you can create in a user space, it has no weight for specific pages etc.

Traveling into kernel flushes branch predictor caches, tlb. So it's not free at all.