From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Anna Schumaker Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 0/4] VFS: In-kernel copy system call Date: Wed, 11 Nov 2015 09:00:11 -0500 Message-ID: <564349EB.7030900@Netapp.com> References: <1447192413-15376-1-git-send-email-Anna.Schumaker@Netapp.com> <20151111033827.GJ22011@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20151111033827.GJ22011-3bDd1+5oDREiFSDQTTA3OLVCufUGDwFn@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Al Viro Cc: linux-nfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-btrfs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-fsdevel-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, linux-api-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org, zab-ugsP4Wv/S6ZeoWH0uzbU5w@public.gmane.org, clm-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org, darrick.wong-QHcLZuEGTsvQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, mtk.manpages-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, andros-HgOvQuBEEgTQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org, hch-wEGCiKHe2LqWVfeAwA7xHQ@public.gmane.org List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org On 11/10/2015 10:38 PM, Al Viro wrote: > 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. > Thanks, Al!