Hugh Dickins wrote:
>
> On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Stephen C. Tweedie wrote:
> >
> > This is actually really important --- writepage on its own cannot
> > distinguish between requests to flush something to disk (eg. msync or
> > fsync), and requests to evict dirty data from memory.
>
> Actually, that much can now be distinguished:
> PageLaunder(page) when evicting from memory,
> !PageLaunder(page) when msync or fsync.
Nifty! Thanks for pointing this out.
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