On Thu, Mar 02, 2000 at 01:19:40PM -0800, Grant Grundler wrote: > I was just talking about that with someone and thinking we could > put that in a "common" I/O path. I found "wakeup_bdflush()" but have > no clue what that does. that's the kernel demon which writes dirty pages to disk and has nothing to do with flushing caches, unfortunately.