Re: [PATCH v2] man/man2/readv.2: Document RWF_DONTCACHE

[Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>]

On 9/1/25 8:22 AM, Alejandro Colomar wrote:
> Add a description of the RWF_DONTCACHE IO flag, which tells the kernel
> that any page cache instantiated by this IO, should be dropped when the
> operation has completed.
> 
> Reported-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
> Cc: "Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>
> Cc: Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>
> Cc: linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
> Co-authored-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
> [alx: editorial improvements; srcfix, ffix]
> Signed-off-by: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
> ---
> 
> Hi Jens,
> 
> Here's the patch.  We don't need to paste it into writev(2), because
> writev(2) is documented in readv(2); they're the same page.
> 
> Thanks for the commit message!
> 
> Please sign it, if you like it.

Thanks for doing this!


Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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Jens Axboe