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From: gmate.amit@gmail.com (Kumar amit mehta)
Date: Fri, 26 Jul 2013 02:04:06 -0400
Subject: Direct IO and Page cache
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On Fri, Jul 26, 2013 at 06:31:34PM +0800, Chinmay V S wrote:
> 1. Do not worry about coherency between the page-cache and the data
> transferred using O_DIRECT. The kernel will invalidate the cache after
> an O_DIRECT write and flush the cache before an O_DIRECT read.

Thank you. Grey skies are clearing up now.

!!amit