From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Al Viro Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] VFS: In-kernel copy system call Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 03:38:27 +0000 Message-ID: <20151111033827.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> References: <1447192413-15376-1-git-send-email-Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1447192413-15376-1-git-send-email-Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> Sender: linux-fsdevel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Anna Schumaker Cc: linux-nfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, zab@zabbo.net, clm@fb.com, darrick.wong@oracle.com, mtk.manpages@gmail.com, andros@netapp.com, hch@infradead.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On Tue, Nov 10, 2015 at 04:53:29PM -0500, Anna Schumaker wrote: > Copy system calls came up during Plumbers a while ago, mostly because several > filesystems (including NFS and XFS) are currently working on copy acceleration > implementations. We haven't heard from Zach Brown in a while, so I volunteered > to push his patches upstream so individual filesystems don't need to keep > writing their own ioctls. OK, taken for the next cycle. FWIW, I'm going to toss COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE counterpart in as well - right now it's doing only native, AFAICS.