Re: [PATCH 1/3] copyfile: generic_sendpage

[Gunnar Ritter <Gunnar.Ritter@pluto.uni-freiburg.de>]

Jörn Engel <joern@wohnheim.fh-wedel.de> wrote:

Also it might perhaps make sense to add the kernel programmer's
equivalent of

> +	while (count) {
> +		size_t n = min(count, (size_t)4096);
> +		ret = in_file->f_op->sendfile(in_file, ppos, n, actor,out_file);
> +		if (ret < 0) {
> +			if (done)
> +				return done;
> +			else
> +				return ret;
> +		}
> +
> +		done += ret;
> +		count -= ret;
> +
> +		if ((ret == 0) || signal_pending(current))
                {
			if (count == 0) {
				done = -1;
				errno = EINTR;
			}
> +			break;
		}
> +		cond_resched();
> +	}
> +	return done;
> +}

here, for write-like semantics, too.

	Gunnar