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Commit 53f2c4a8 authored by Linus Torvalds's avatar Linus Torvalds
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Merge tag 'nfs-for-3.5-1' of git://git.linux-nfs.org/projects/trondmy/linux-nfs

Pull NFS client updates from Trond Myklebust:
 "New features include:
   - Rewrite the O_DIRECT code so that it can share the same coalescing
     and pNFS functionality as the page cache code.
   - Allow the server to provide hints as to when we should use pNFS,
     and when it is more efficient to read and write through the
     metadata server.
   - NFS cache consistency updates:
     * Use the ctime to emulate a change attribute for NFSv2/v3 so that
       all NFS versions can share the same cache management code.
     * New cache management code will only look at the change attribute
       and size attribute when deciding whether or not our cached data
       is still valid or not.
     * Don't request NFSv4 post-op attributes on writes in cases such as
       O_DIRECT, where we don't care about data cache consistency, or
       when we have a write delegation, and know that our cache is still
       consistent.
     * ...
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