Re: [PATCH] Track block device users that created dirty pages

2013-04-03 Thread Mikulas Patocka
On Mon, 1 Apr 2013, Jeff Moyer wrote: > Mikulas Patocka writes: > > > The new semantics is: if a process did some buffered writes to the block > > device (with write or mmap), the cache is flushed when the process > > closes the block device. Processes that didn't do any buffered writes to > >

Re: [PATCH] Track block device users that created dirty pages

2013-04-01 Thread Jeff Moyer
Mikulas Patocka writes: > The new semantics is: if a process did some buffered writes to the block > device (with write or mmap), the cache is flushed when the process > closes the block device. Processes that didn't do any buffered writes to > the device don't cause cache flush. It has these adv