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Subject: Re: Missing cache flush. 
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David Woodhouse writes:
 > > Call it flush_ecache_full() or something.
 > 
 > Strange name. Why? How about __flush_cache_range()?

How about flush_cache_range_force() instead?

I want something in the name that tells the reader "this flushes the
caches, even though under every other ordinary circumstance you would
not need to".

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com