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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Use case for "loop: Issue O_DIRECT aio with pages"?
Date: Fri, 2 Mar 2012 02:29:29 -0500
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I don't care about loop in particular, but this is important for any
in-kernel block device emulation using files, including the SCSI target
and a possible vhost-{block,scsi} implementation.

It's also the right way to implement swapping, instead of the braindead
swap over nfs proposals floating around currently.