From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: splice status
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:53 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060420230053.GA3860@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060420142902.GC4717@suse.de>
On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> converting them to ->splice_read(). There's also a patch there that
> fixes up loop.
It actuaklly breaks loop in various setup. You now directly call
do_generic_file_read which is just a library function for filesystems.
For example xfs or ocfs actually do need additional locking and/or other
bits before calling it. So this absolutely has to go through a file
operation.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-04-20 23:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-04-20 14:29 splice status Jens Axboe
2006-04-20 22:31 ` splice status - git clone failed Piet Delaney
2006-04-21 6:49 ` Jens Axboe
2006-04-20 23:00 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
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