On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 11:25 AM Yosry Ahmed <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jul 7, 2026 at 2:38 AM Zenghui Yu <[email protected]> wrote: > > We were discussing a way for userspace to explicitly trigger a flush > before, which would come in handy for testing. However, we decided not > to expose flushing as a concept to userspace. > > Unfortunately I think the only way to "fix" the test is to allocate > more memory, enough to trigger a flush on most interesting setups. > Perhaps we should scale the amount of memory with the number of CPUs > so that we don't have to keep playing whack-a-mole.
I don't have a good idea for writeback, but for zswap out, would MADV_PAGEOUT work here?

