On Mon, 11 Feb 2013 11:27:01 -0500
Johannes Weiner <han...@cmpxchg.org> wrote:
> > Is PG_dirty the right choice? Is that right for huge pages? Should I
> > assume is_migration_entry(entry) means it's not dirty, or is there some
> > other check here?
>
> If your only consequence of finding dirty pages is to sync, would you
> be better off using fsync/fdatasync maybe?
Yes, if the data is all on disk then an fsync() will be a no-op. IOW,
if (I need to fsync)
fsync();
is equivalent to
fsync();
Methinks we need to understand the requirement better.
Also, having to mmap the file to be able to query pagecache state is a
hack. Whatever happened to the fincore() patch?
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