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    fuse: add a new fuse init flag to relax restrictions in no cache mode · e78662e8
    Hao Xu authored
    FOPEN_DIRECT_IO is usually set by fuse daemon to indicate need of strong
    coherency, e.g. network filesystems.  Thus shared mmap is disabled since it
    leverages page cache and may write to it, which may cause inconsistence.
    
    But FOPEN_DIRECT_IO can be used not for coherency but to reduce memory
    footprint as well, e.g. reduce guest memory usage with virtiofs.
    Therefore, add a new fuse init flag FUSE_DIRECT_IO_RELAX to relax
    restrictions in that mode, currently, it allows shared mmap.  One thing to
    note is to make sure it doesn't break coherency in your use case.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHao Xu <howeyxu@tencent.com>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMiklos Szeredi <mszeredi@redhat.com>
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