From: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
To: Alejandro Colomar <alx@kernel.org>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
"Darrick J. Wong" <djwong@kernel.org>,
Johannes Thumshirn <Johannes.Thumshirn@wdc.com>,
linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-man@vger.kernel.org" <linux-man@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] man/man2/readv.2: Document RWF_DONTCACHE
Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2025 08:36:49 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6daac09b-dd09-4642-8940-4b70f31ca570@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <9e1f1b2d6cf2640161bc84aef24ca40fdb139054.1756736414.git.alx@kernel.org>
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>
--
Jens Axboe
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2025-09-01 14:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2025-06-02 15:00 RWF_DONTCACHE documentation Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-02 15:49 ` Jens Axboe
2025-06-02 20:54 ` Jens Axboe
2025-06-11 8:41 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-11 17:25 ` Jens Axboe
2025-08-18 4:01 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-08-18 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2025-09-01 14:22 ` [PATCH v2] man/man2/readv.2: Document RWF_DONTCACHE Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-01 14:34 ` Alejandro Colomar
2025-09-01 14:36 ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2025-09-02 5:21 ` Christoph Hellwig
2025-06-03 6:20 ` RWF_DONTCACHE documentation Johannes Thumshirn
2025-06-03 13:10 ` Jens Axboe
2025-06-03 18:19 ` Johannes Thumshirn
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