From: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
Max Kellermann <max@duempel.org>,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] make splice more generic
Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 21:27:06 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090514202706.GB20363@shareable.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090511121247.GZ4694@kernel.dk>
Jens Axboe wrote:
> SPLICE_F_MOVE is a soft flag in that it will move if it
> can, but not fail if it can't.
According to local man page, it's not even that.
SPLICE_F_MOVE [...] The initial implementation of this flag was buggy:
therefore starting in Linux 2.6.21 it is a *no-op*
(but is still permitted in a splice() call); in the
future, a correct implementation may be restored.
> Perhaps we should add a flag that does pass back an error if we
> can't just move pages around, SPLICE_F_STRICT or something like
> that.
What should it do in cases where the kernel would choose to copy data,
i.e. data that isn't a whole page?
-- Jamie
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-14 20:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-07 13:37 [patch 0/3] make splice more generic Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-07 13:37 ` [patch 1/3] splice: implement pipe to pipe splicing Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-07 13:37 ` [patch 2/3] splice: implement default splice_read method Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-13 5:35 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-13 6:37 ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-13 9:01 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-14 17:29 ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-14 17:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-14 18:00 ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-18 12:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-19 9:38 ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-07 13:37 ` [patch 3/3] splice: implement default splice_write method Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-07 15:55 ` [patch 0/3] make splice more generic Linus Torvalds
2009-05-11 15:17 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-09 11:36 ` Max Kellermann
2009-05-11 12:12 ` Jens Axboe
2009-05-11 15:22 ` Miklos Szeredi
2009-05-14 20:27 ` Jamie Lokier [this message]
2009-05-15 7:32 ` Jens Axboe
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