Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 30 Mar 2006 10:02:10 +0200 (MEST) | From | Jan Engelhardt <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][RFC] splice support |
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>> OK.. Do you plan to make it reject unrecognised flags? > >Depends, not sure if eg a 'move' flag should be a hard or soft >indication. Say we can't move a page and the caller asked us to migrate, >we'd probably just do the sane thing and copy that one page. It would be >silly to fail that request entirely. >
Another bit in the flags:
enum { SPLICE_COPY = 1 << 0, SPLICE_MOVE = 1 << 1, SPLICE_MOVEORCOPY = 1 << 2, // fallback to copy if move fails };
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