On Thu, May 05, 2016 at 09:39:14PM +0000, Verma, Vishal L wrote: > How is it any 'less direct'? All it does now is follow the blockdev > O_DIRECT path. There still isn't any page cache involved.. It's still more overhead than the play DAX I/O path. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-block" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html