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SubjectRe: [patch 1/2] splice: dont steal
On Thu, Mar 15 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:27:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, Mar 15 2007, Nick Piggin wrote:
> > >
> > > We should be able to allow for it with the new a_ops API I'm working
> > > on.
> >
> > "Should be" and in progress stuff, is it guarenteed to get there?
>
> Well considering that it is needed in order to solve 3 different deadlock
> scenarios in the core write(2) path without taking a big performance hit,
> I'd hope so ;)
>
> It isn't guaranteed, but I have only had positive feedback so far. Would
> take a while to actually get merged, though.

It's not that I don't believe you, I'm just a little reluctant to rip
stuff out with a promise to fix it later when foo and bar are merged,
since things like that have a tendency not to get done because they are
forgotten :-)

Do you have a test case for stealing failures? What I'm really asking is
how critical is this?

--
Jens Axboe

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