Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 14 Feb 2021 21:18:10 +0000 | From | Al Viro <> | Subject | Re: [git pull] sendfile fixes |
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On Sun, Feb 14, 2021 at 11:35:36AM -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Just to clarify: this says "fixes", but I get the feeling that you > meant for me to pull tomorrow in the 5.12 merge window? > > I like the patches, but they don't seem to be anything hugely urgent. > They should make "sendfile to pipe" more efficient, but the current > hack is _workable_ (and not any worse than what we historically did) > even if it's not optimal. > > Right?
Yes. It allows to drop the current hack, but it's not urgent.
> Oh, and it looks like the first line of the commit message of > 313d64a35d36 ("do_splice_to(): move the logics for limiting the read > length in") got truncated somehow..
Offense against style, actually - preposition torn from object and moved to the very end of sentence... "[splice] move the logics for limiting the read length into do_splice_to()" would probably be better.
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