Seeking consensus on BZ 16734

[Andreas Schwab]

Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org> writes:

> The original idea seems to be some misguided idea that read/write
> should perform better with a page-aligned buffer. I can't make any
> sense of this believe except in the case of the O_DIRECT silliness
> Linux supports; normally IO is going to be memcpy to/from fs cache
> buffers and there's no reason to expect page alignment to make that
> faster.

Page aligned copies from the page cache should be faster.

Andreas.

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