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From: Olaf Hering <olaf@aepfle.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] qemu-dm: add command to flush buffer cache
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2012 13:13:34 +0100
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On Fri, Jan 13, Stefano Stabellini wrote:

> I guess it is not possible to send the usual ioreq with type ==
> IOREQ_TYPE_INVALIDATE because the pager is separate from the hypervisor,
> correct?

Maybe send_invalidate_req() could be triggerd by the pager in some way?
Andres sent a patch to move from domctl to memop. Maybe the paging part
of it could be extended to issue another command which just calls
send_invalidate_req(). If thats possible, then I assume the upstream
qemu does not need changing as well.

Olaf