Re: [GIT PULL] direct IO support for loop driver

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Wed, Nov 20, 2013 at 01:19:33PM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> I really don't see the point of all this crap. All this for the loop
> driver? If so, it had better at least be prettier than it is.

It's for anyone trying to to direct I/O from kernel space.  I have
patches that speed up ecryptfs and allow sane operation for the file
backed scsi target based on this that have been collecting dust for a
while.

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