Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 14 Apr 2009 19:22:42 +0100 | From | Jamie Lokier <> | Subject | Re: [patch 5/6] splice: remove generic_file_splice_write_nolock() |
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Miklos Szeredi wrote: > Remove the now unused generic_file_splice_write_nolock() function. > It's conceptually broken anyway, because splice may need to wait for > pipe events so holding locks across the whole operation is wrong.
Did the conceptual brokenness affect userspace behaviour of splice/sendfile at all?
Thanks, -- Jamie
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