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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