Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 16 May 2013 17:16:44 -0400 | From | Ric Wheeler <> | Subject | Re: [RFC v0 1/4] vfs: add copy_range syscall and vfs entry point |
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On 05/15/2013 04:03 PM, Zach Brown wrote: > On Wed, May 15, 2013 at 07:44:05PM +0000, Eric Wong wrote: >> Why introduce a new syscall instead of extending sys_splice? > Personally, I think it's ugly to have different operations use the same > syscall just because their arguments match.
I agree with Zach - having a system call called "splice" do copy offloads is not intuitive.
This is a very reasonable name for something that battled its way through several standards bodies (for NFS and SCSI :)), so we should give it a reasonable name
thanks!
Ric
> > But that preference aside, sure, if the consensus is that we'd rather > use the splice() entry point then I can duck tape the pieces together to > make it work. > >> If the user doesn't need a out offset, then sendfile() should also be >> able to transparently utilize COPY/CLONE_RANGE, too. > Perhaps, yeah. > > - z
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