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Subject: why does /dev/md call cpu_dcache_flush()?
From: Ian Lepore <ian@FreeBSD.org>
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Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 13:57:39 -0600
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The only caller of cpu_dcache_flush() in the entire system appears to be
the md device.  Does anybody know why it makes the call?

-- Ian