Re: [PATCH RFC] introduce ioctl to completely invalidate page cache

From: Dave Chinner
Date: Fri Oct 03 2014 - 01:27:52 EST


On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:59:40PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 10/02/2014 10:09 AM, Thanos Makatos wrote:
> > This patch introduces a new ioctl called BLKFLUSHBUFS2, which is pretty

What a horrible name. Whatever happened to naming ioctls interfaces
after their function? i.e. BLKFLUSHINVAL?

Cheers,

Dave?

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