--- Juri Haberland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Al Peat wrote: > > > > Is there any way to completely purge the buffer > > cache -- not just the write requests (ala 'sync' > or > > 'update'), but the whole thing? Can I just call > > invalidate_buffers() or destroy_buffers()? > > What about the ioctl BLKFLSBUF ? > If you are running a SuSE distrib there is already a > tool called flushb > that does what you want. If not, you can download > the simple tool from > http://innominate.org/~juri/flushb.tar.gz Another question: what if I need to purge the page table of all files as well? Is there a clean way to do that? I've been looking at /mm/memory.c, but it doesn't look like clear_page_tables, etc. get exported. I need /all/ read requests to go to disk, and it'd be nice if I could do that without a reboot (but I'll take the reboot if that's the only way to go about it :) Thanks again, Al __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Yahoo! Shopping - Thousands of Stores. Millions of Products. http://shopping.yahoo.com/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
