Re: [PATCH][RF C/T/D] Unmapped page cache control - via boot parameter

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 06:53:34PM +0200, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Meanwhile I looked at the code, and it looks bad.  There is an 
> IO_CMD_FDSYNC, but it isn't tagged, so we have to drain the queue before 
> issuing it.  In any case, qemu doesn't use it as far as I could tell, 
> and even if it did, device-matter doesn't implement the needed 
> ->aio_fsync() operation.

No one implements it, and all surrounding code is dead wood.  It would
require us to do asynchronous pagecache operations, which involve
major surgery of the VM code.  Patches to do this were rejected multiple
times.

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