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Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:

> To get a complete picture, how did you want to handle direct io ?
>
>Regards
>Suparna
>  
>
Just through the regular xip path, O_DIRECT doesn't have any effect
on those files since we do a direct memcpy to disk in the end anyway.
That has the user-visible effect that unalligned reads/writes work with
O_DIRECT.