Re: [PATCH v2 2/2] msync: start async writeout when MS_ASYNC

From: Paolo Bonzini
Date: Mon Jul 02 2012 - 04:15:23 EST

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Il 22/06/2012 23:26, Andrew Morton ha scritto:
>> If the application does not want to start I/O, it can simply call msync
>> with flags equal to MS_INVALIDATE. This one remains a no-op, as it should
>> be on a reasonable implementation.
>
> Using MS_INVALIDATE is a bit of a hack.

Right, you could use flags == 0.

I'm not _that_ attached to this patch, I'll send a v3 of the other one
and drop this one.

Paolo
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