Re: bdflush flushing memory mapped pages.

Andre Hedrick (andre@linux-ide.org)
Wed, 9 Apr 2003 02:13:03 -0700 (PDT)


Funny you mention this point!

I just spent 30-45 minutes on the phone talking to Jens about this very
issue. Jens states he can map the model in to 2.5. and will give it a
fling in a bit. This issue is a must; however, I had given up on the idea
until 2.7. However, the issues he and I addressed, in combination to your
request jive in sync.

Cheers,

Andre Hedrick
LAD Storage Consulting Group

On Wed, 9 Apr 2003, Keith Ansell wrote:

> help
>
> My application uses SHARED memory mapping files for file I/O, and we have
> observed
> that Linux does not flush dirty pages to disk until munmap or msync are
> called.
>
> I would like to know are there any development plans which would address
> this issue or
> if there is a version of bdflush which flushes write required pages (dirty
> pages) to disk?
>
> Regards
> Keith Ansell.
>
>
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