From: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>, Mark Fasheh <mfasheh@suse.com>,
Joel Becker <jlbec@evilplan.org>,
linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
xfs@oss.sgi.com, Sage Weil <sage@inktank.com>,
Steve French <sfrench@samba.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] splice: locking changes and code refactoring
Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2014 23:22:04 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CA+55aFw4LgyYEkygxHUnpKZg3jMACGzsyENc9a9rWFmLcaRefQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20140118064040.GE10323@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Fri, Jan 17, 2014 at 10:40 PM, Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Objections, comments?
I certainly object to the "map, then unmap" approach. No VM games.
But if it can be done more naturally as a writev, then that may well
be ok. As long as we're talking about just the
default_file_splice_write() case, and people who want to do special
things with page movement can continue to do so..
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-01-18 7:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 49+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-12-12 18:14 [PATCH 0/5] splice: locking changes and code refactoring Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-12 18:15 ` [PATCH 1/5] splice: move balance_dirty_pages_ratelimited into pipe_to_file Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-12 18:15 ` [PATCH 2/5] splice: nest i_mutex outside pipe_lock Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-12 18:15 ` [PATCH 3/5] splice: use splice_from_pipe in generic_file_splice_write Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-12 18:15 ` [PATCH 4/5] xfs: fix splice_write locking Christoph Hellwig
2013-12-12 18:15 ` [PATCH 5/5] splice: stop exporting splice_from_pipe implementation details Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-13 14:14 ` [PATCH 0/5] splice: locking changes and code refactoring Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-13 23:56 ` Al Viro
2014-01-14 13:22 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-14 17:20 ` Al Viro
2014-01-15 18:10 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 6:40 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 7:22 ` Linus Torvalds [this message]
2014-01-18 7:46 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 7:56 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 8:27 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 8:44 ` David Miller
2014-02-07 17:10 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 19:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-01-18 20:10 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 20:27 ` Al Viro
2014-01-18 20:30 ` Al Viro
2014-01-19 5:13 ` [RFC] unifying write variants for filesystems Al Viro
2014-01-20 13:55 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-01-20 20:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-01 22:43 ` Al Viro
2014-02-02 0:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2014-02-02 2:02 ` Al Viro
2014-02-02 19:21 ` Al Viro
2014-02-02 19:23 ` Al Viro
2014-02-03 14:41 ` Miklos Szeredi
2014-02-03 15:33 ` Al Viro
2014-02-02 23:16 ` Anton Altaparmakov
2014-02-03 15:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2014-02-03 16:24 ` Al Viro
2014-02-03 16:50 ` Dave Kleikamp
2014-02-03 16:23 ` Dave Kleikamp
2014-02-04 12:44 ` Al Viro
2014-02-04 12:52 ` Kent Overstreet
2014-02-04 15:17 ` Al Viro
2014-02-04 17:27 ` Zach Brown
2014-02-04 17:35 ` Kent Overstreet
2014-02-04 18:08 ` Al Viro
2014-02-04 18:00 ` Al Viro
2014-02-04 18:33 ` Zach Brown
2014-02-04 18:36 ` Al Viro
2014-02-05 19:58 ` Al Viro
2014-02-05 20:42 ` Zach Brown
2014-02-06 9:08 ` Kent Overstreet
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