From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Dave Chinner Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC] introduce ioctl to completely invalidate page cache Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 15:27:37 +1000 Message-ID: <20141003052737.GL24490@dastard> References: <1412266184-23776-1-git-send-email-thanos.makatos@citrix.com> <542DAEAC.8010203@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Thanos Makatos , linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, jlayton@poochiereds.net, bfields@fieldses.org, jack@suse.cz To: Jens Axboe Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <542DAEAC.8010203@kernel.dk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-fsdevel.vger.kernel.org On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 01:59:40PM -0600, Jens Axboe wrote: > On 10/02/2014 10:09 AM, Thanos Makatos wrote: > > This patch introduces a new ioctl called BLKFLUSHBUFS2, which is pretty What a horrible name. Whatever happened to naming ioctls interfaces after their function? i.e. BLKFLUSHINVAL? Cheers, Dave? -- Dave Chinner david@fromorbit.com