Xen devel - Jan 2009 - Is noncached_write() in xc_domain_save() actually doing what it says?

Hi,

I''m curious if noncached_write() (from xc_domain_save.c) is actually
doing writes without adding to the file system cache.  From what I
see, it''s doing a write_exact(), then calling discard_file_cache()
without a flush, and ostensibly relying on the posix_fadvise64(...,
POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED) call to remove those written pages from the file
cache... but from what I understand, the POSIX_FADV_DONTNEED call
won''t be able to remove those pages unless they have already been
flushed to disk.

Am I misunderstanding this?

Thanks,
Mike

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