The purpose of this task is to make Windows behave the same as Unix with respect to different flush methods, i.e innodb_flush_method=O_DSYNC, O_DIRECT, O_DIRECT_NO_FSYNC etc.

It probably makes sense to retain the current default behavior on Windows, where both redo log and data are used without buffering,and are flushed.

Windows has exact corresponding options to unix-ly O_DIRECT (FILE_FLAG_NO_BUFFERING) and O_SYNC (FILE_FLAG_WRITE_THROUGH), so the separation of the flushing methods is artificial.