- NFS direct IO completely bypasses the buffer and page caches.
If a file is open for direct IO all caching is disabled.
- Direct IO for Directories will be addressed later.
- 2 new NFS directio related sysctls are added. One is a knob to
disable NFS direct IO completely (direct IO is enabled by default).
The other is to disallow mmaped IO on a file that has at least one
O_DIRECT open (see the comment in nfs_vnops.c for more details).
The default is to allow mmaps on a file that has O_DIRECT opens.
Submitted by: Mohan Srinivasan mohans at yahoo-inc dot com
Obtained from: Yahoo!