Re: [PATCH net-next] net: splice: avoid high order page splitting

David Miller
2013-01-07T05:07:43Z

From: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 05 Jan 2013 23:31:18 -0800

> From: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>
>
> splice() can handle pages of any order, but network code tries hard to
> split them in PAGE_SIZE units. Not quite successfully anyway, as
> __splice_segment() assumed poff < PAGE_SIZE. This is true for
> the skb->data part, not necessarily for the fragments.
>
> This patch removes this logic to give the pages as they are in the skb.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <edumazet@google.com>

Applied.