Re: [PATCH] tcp: splice as many packets as possible at once

Jarek Poplawski
2009-01-14T11:41:25Z

On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:29:03PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 14, 2009 at 10:47:16AM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> >
> > > > I don't think Herbert meant other ->sendpage() implementations, but I
> > > > could miss something.
> > >
> > > I think he did :-)
> >
> > I hope Herbert will make it clear.
>
> Yes I did mean the other splice paths, and in particular, the path
> to disk. I hope that's clear enough :)

So, I think I got it right: otherwise it would be enough to make this
copy to a new page only before ->sendpage() calls e.g. in
generic_splice_sendpage().

Jarek P.