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From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>
Cc: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@austin.ibm.com>,
	Daniel Drake <ddrake@brontes3d.com>,
	axboe@suse.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] jfs: Add splice support
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 09:46:04 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061031084604.GB14055@kernel.dk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0610310931020.23540@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>

On Tue, Oct 31 2006, Jan Engelhardt wrote:
> 
> >> This allows the splice() and tee() syscalls to be used with JFS.
> >
> >Gosh, that was easy.  Why couldn't I do that?  :-)
> 
> You could add it to all the other filesystems that lack it. (Cautionary 
> question: Does that work at an instant like it did with jfs?)
> 
> Seems like only ext[234] gfs2 reiserfs and xfs have splice_read 
> currently.

If the file system uses the generic page cache functions for reading and
writing, it should be able to use the generic splice read/write
functions as well. If it doesn't, then more work is likely involved. In
short, check the .read/.write and .aio_read/.aio_write parts of the
file_operations[] structure. jfs uses the generic handlers, hence splice
support should just be the two-liner posted.

-- 
Jens Axboe


      reply	other threads:[~2006-10-31  8:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-30 16:31 [PATCH] jfs: Add splice support Daniel Drake
2006-10-30 16:56 ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-30 17:29   ` Daniel Drake
2006-10-30 17:49     ` Dave Kleikamp
2006-10-31  8:32   ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-10-31  8:46     ` Jens Axboe [this message]

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