Re: Re: question about splice

From: majianpeng
Date: Fri Jul 26 2013 - 03:54:14 EST


>Hi Jianpeng,
>
>On 07/26/2013 03:08 PM, majianpeng wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I used splice and found a prolem(at least i call).
>> The demo is:
>> A:splice(regularfileA--->pipe);
>> B:splice(pipe--->regularfileB)
>> Before do B, we modify the data of regA which now in pipe. The data to regularfileB willbe change.
>> If we used the buff
>> A:read(regA, buff);
>> B: write(buff, regB);
>> After A, the contend of regA can't effect the buff.
>> Review the code of splice,I know the pipe share the pagecache of regA.
>
>Right. And also this is the splice's original design intention, using share mmap rather
>than copy_to_user/copy_from_user in order to achieve zero-copy.
>
If it use some method like COW, i think it can avoid this problem.
>Thanks,
>Gu
>
>> Maybe this is not a problem or am i missing something?
>
>>
>> Thanks!
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>
Thanks!
Jianpeng Ma
>Hi Jianpeng,
>
>On 07/26/2013 03:08 PM, majianpeng wrote:
>
>> Hi all,
>> I used splice and found a prolem(at least i call).
>> The demo is:
>> A:splice(regularfileA--->pipe);
>> B:splice(pipe--->regularfileB)
>> Before do B, we modify the data of regA which now in pipe. The data to regularfileB willbe change.
>> If we used the buff
>> A:read(regA, buff);
>> B: write(buff, regB);
>> After A, the contend of regA can't effect the buff.
>> Review the code of splice,I know the pipe share the pagecache of regA.
>
>Right. And also this is the splice's original design intention, using share mmap rather
>than copy_to_user/copy_from_user in order to achieve zero-copy.
>
>Thanks,
>Gu
>
>> Maybe this is not a problem or am i missing something?
>
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Jianpeng MaN?叉??y??b??千v??)藓{.n?+??{?赙zXФ?塄}?财??&j:+v???赙zZ+€?+zf"?????i??z??ア???璀?&?)撷f?^j谦y??@A?囤?
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>
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