Re: flushing out a page

[Abhishek Tiwari <abhishekt@in.niksun.com>]

Raghu R. Arur wrote:
>  Hi,
> 
>    In try_to_swap_out() (2.4.19), if the page that is getting swapped out
> is dirty, we add the page to the dirty_pages list. And I suppose that this
> page gets flushed out into the disk thru bdflush(). Is there a way that
> I can write the page into the disk instead of relying on bdflush. should i
> use the write_page() function of the mapping??

u mean a_ops->writepage() ..??
guess u can do that (and clear the dirty flag)
or u can use filemap_fdatasync() for all dirty
pages in the mapping..
but why would u want to do this ( "instead of relying on bdflush" )

Abhishek

> 
>  thanks,
> Raghu
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