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Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@yahoo.com.au> wrote: > > If you want to start the IO *now* without waiting on it, call msync(MS_ASYNC) > If you don't want to start the IO now, that's really easy, do nothing. > If you want to start the IO now and also wait for it to finish, call msync(MS_SYNC) I've already explained the problems with the start-io-in-MS_ASYNC approach. > Presently, the first option is unavailable. We need to patch the kernel either way. There's no point in going back to either the known-problematic approach or to something half-assed. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ | ||||||||||||
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