Re: [RFC] VFS: File System Mount Wide O_DIRECT Support

[Matthew Wilcox]

On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:57:14AM -0400, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 04, 2012 at 06:17:47PM +0800, Li Wang wrote:
> > For file system created on file-backed loop device, there will be two-levels of 
> > page cache present, which typically doubles the memory consumption. 
> 
> And the right fix is to not use buffer I/O on the backing file instead
> of hacks like this.

That was my initial reaction too, but for the case of two VMs operating on
the same device, it's better for it to be cached once in the hype-rvisor
than twice in the VMs.  Is that a common case worth optimising for?
Probably not ...

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