From: Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>
To: Zach Brown <zab@redhat.com>
Cc: "Myklebust, Trond" <Trond.Myklebust@netapp.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
Linux FS Devel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
"Chris L. Mason" <clmason@fusionio.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Alexander Viro <aviro@redhat.com>,
"Martin K. Petersen" <mkp@mkp.net>,
Hannes Reinecke <hare@suse.de>, Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>
Subject: Re: New copyfile system call - discuss before LSF?
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2013 10:47:39 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <51273EBB.1010305@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130221222449.GY22221@lenny.home.zabbo.net>
Il 21/02/2013 23:24, Zach Brown ha scritto:
> You could make it work with some locking and out_fd seeking to set the
> write offset before calling sendfile64()+flags, but ugh.
>
> ssize_t sendfile(int out_fd, int in_fd, off_t in_offset, off_t
> out_offset, size_t count, int flags);
>
> That seems closer.
>
> We might also want to pre-emptively offer iovs instead of offsets,
> because that's the very first thing that's going to be requested after
> people prototype having to iterate calling sendfile() for each
> contiguous copy region.
Indeed, I was about to propose that exactly. So that would be
psendfilev. I don't think psendfile is useful, and can be easily
provided at the libc level.
Paolo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-22 9:48 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 56+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-21 11:37 New copyfile system call - discuss before LSF? Ric Wheeler
2013-02-21 13:37 ` Hannes Reinecke
2013-02-21 13:51 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-21 14:57 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-02-21 16:36 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-02-21 20:00 ` Paolo Bonzini
2013-02-21 20:50 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-21 22:24 ` Zach Brown
2013-02-22 1:29 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-23 0:32 ` Eric Wong
2013-03-30 19:45 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 21:23 ` Eric Wong
2013-02-22 9:47 ` Paolo Bonzini [this message]
2013-02-22 9:52 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-02-22 18:22 ` Zach Brown
2013-02-22 22:48 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-25 21:14 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-25 21:49 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-02-25 21:59 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-25 22:16 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-25 23:28 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-25 23:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-25 23:45 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-26 0:03 ` Zach Brown
2013-03-11 9:31 ` Joel Becker
2013-02-26 21:02 ` Jörn Engel
2013-02-26 22:35 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-30 19:49 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-30 20:08 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-03-30 21:45 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-30 21:57 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-30 23:21 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-31 2:53 ` Andreas Dilger
2013-03-31 3:52 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-31 4:18 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-03-31 4:36 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-31 4:45 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-04-01 15:49 ` J. Bruce Fields
2013-03-31 7:36 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 18:27 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-31 18:32 ` openat(..., AT_UNLINKED) was " Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 18:44 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-03-31 22:50 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 23:14 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-31 23:18 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 23:28 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-03-31 23:41 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 5:38 ` AEDilger Gmail
2013-03-31 8:25 ` Pavel Machek
2013-03-31 11:48 ` Pádraig Brady
2013-03-30 22:40 ` Andy Lutomirski
2013-02-21 22:05 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-02-21 22:13 ` Myklebust, Trond
2013-02-22 8:47 ` Ric Wheeler
2013-02-21 18:29 ` Jeremy Allison
2013-02-22 0:29 ` Eric Wong
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