[Ocfs2-devel] [PATCH V8 4/8] mm/fs: add hooks to support cleancache

[Dan Magenheimer]

Hi Minchan --

> First of all, thanks for resolving conflict with my patch.

You're welcome!  As I pointed out offlist, yours was the first
change in MM that caused any semantic changes to the cleancache
core hooks patch since before 2.6.18.
 
> Before I suggested a thing about cleancache_flush_page,
> cleancache_flush_inode.
> 
> what's the meaning of flush's semantic?
> I thought it means invalidation.
> AFAIC, how about change flush with invalidate?

I'm not sure the words "flush" and "invalidate" are defined
precisely or used consistently everywhere in computer
science, but I think that "invalidate" is to destroy
a "pointer" to some data, but not necessarily destroy the
data itself.   And "flush" means to actually remove
the data.  So one would "invalidate a mapping" but one
would "flush a cache".

Since cleancache_flush_page and cleancache_flush_inode
semantically remove data from cleancache, I think flush
is a better name than invalidate.

Does that make sense?

Thanks,
Dan