On Thu, Jan 05, 2012 at 07:58:34PM -0500, Mikulas Patocka wrote: > Hi > > This is the patch for selective flushing on block devices. Only processes > that created some dirty data in the pagecache flush the pagecache when > closing the device. The processes that didn't create any dirty data (for > example lvm, when using direct io) don't flush the cache when closing the > device. > > Mikulas > > --- > > Track block device users that created dirty pages > > This patch adds a new field f_driver_flags to struct file. The field may > be used by the driver for any purpose. Please use file->private for that kind of usage. -- dm-devel mailing list dm-devel@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/dm-devel
