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From: Jeff Moyer <jmoyer@redhat.com>
Subject: question: should io_is_direct really return true for DAX inodes?
Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 10:32:45 -0400
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Hi,

I'm concerned that applications that used to run out of page cache will
experience a performance degradation when being forced into doing I/O
directly to the backing store.  What do others think?

Cheers,
Jeff