This enables direct-io on the loop devices that we create for LVM backing
stores. The goal here is to reduce the buffer cache overhead involved with
loop mounting a very large file on a filesystem, as well as potentially
providing a little more block-device-like behavior for things that expect
them. We are hoping this will address some of the very long LVM calls that
cinder does, which randomly take a very long time, causing timeouts.
The loop direct-io support was added in kernel 4.4.0, which was xenial,
but the losetup binary does not have the required flag. Thus, this patch
checks the "losetup -h" output for the flag before deciding to enable it.
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