Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 14:42:12 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] splice support #2 |
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* Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > * Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> wrote: > > > > > > I agree with the purpose of making sys_splice() generic and in > > > > particular usable in scripts/shells where pipes are commonly used, but > > > > we should also fulfill the original promise (outlined 15 years ago or > > > > so) and not limit this to pipes. That way i could improve TUX to make > > > > use of it for example ;) > > > > > > There's absolutely no reason why we can't add fd -> fd splicing as > > > well, so no worries. Right now we just require a pipe transport. It's > > > extendable :-) > > > > ok :) I think this code should be merged into v2.6.17 - it's very clean > > and unintrusive. > > I hope so, too. I'll post a hopefully finished patch real soon, and > then the move pages addon afterwards (which works now).
what does the move pages addon do? pagecache->pagecache transfer?
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