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In-Reply-To: <200003022119.NAA11506@milano.cup.hp.com>; from Grant Grundler on Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:19:40PM -0800
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On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:19:40PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote:
> I was just talking about that with someone and thinking we could
> put that in a "common" I/O path. I found "wakeup_bdflush()" but have
> no clue what that does.

that's the kernel demon which writes dirty pages to disk and has nothing
to do with flushing caches, unfortunately.