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From: Olaf Kirch <okir@suse.de>
To: trond.myklebust@fys.uio.no
Cc: ralph gonzalez <rgonzale@ibl.bm>, nfs@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: Force client page cache invalidation?
Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2004 09:57:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040226085718.GB1197@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1145.130.128.48.179.1077653208.squirrel@webmail.uio.no>

> Linux does not support this sort of kludge and is unlikely to do so for
> the near future. The VM simply cannot support it.

What about using fadvise(POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) - shouldn't this
do the trick? Or does it refuse to invalidate mapped pages?

Olaf
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Olaf Kirch     |  Stop wasting entropy - start using predictable
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  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-26  8:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-24 18:30 Force client page cache invalidation? ralph gonzalez
2004-02-24 20:06 ` trond.myklebust
2004-02-26  8:57   ` Olaf Kirch [this message]
2004-02-26 12:35     ` trond.myklebust
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-25 14:05 ralph gonzalez

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