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

Jens Axboe
2024-12-12T19:36:50Z

On 12/12/24 12:35 PM, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 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.

Sure, I can make that change.

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Jens Axboe