Re: [PATCHSET v6 0/12] Uncached buffered IO

Matthew Wilcox
2024-12-12T19:35:32Z

On Thu, Dec 12, 2024 at 12:14:23PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> Like I mentioned earlier, the fact that it's cached for the duration of
> the operation is more of an implementation detail that developers need
> not worry about. What's important is that it's not cached AFTER. I still
> feel UNCACHED is the best description, but I'll change it to DONTCACHE
> for the next version just to avoid the overlap with other in-kernel
> uses.

Regardless of the user API name, I like PG_streaming for the folio
flag name.