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

Christoph Hellwig
2024-12-10T11:11:16Z

On Tue, Dec 03, 2024 at 09:52:41PM -0800, Darrick J. Wong wrote:
> <shrug> RWF_DONTCACHE, to match {I,DCACHE}_DONTCACHE ? ;)
>
> They sound pretty similar ("load this so I can do something with it,
> evict it immediately if possible") though I wouldn't rely on people
> outside the kernel being familiar with the existing dontcaches.

FYI, another word for dontcache. uncached just has too many conotations
in the kernel context.