Re: [fs] 140402bab8: stress-ng.splice.ops_per_sec -100.0% regression

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Wed Jul 01 2020 - 16:32:25 EST


On Wed, Jul 1, 2020 at 5:13 AM Christoph Hellwig <hch@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> FYI, this is because stress-nh tests splice using /dev/null. Which
> happens to actually have the iter ops, but doesn't have explicit
> splice_read operation.

Heh. I guess a splice op for /dev/null should be fairly trivial to implement..

Linus