Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2

From: Al Viro

Date: Mon Jun 01 2026 - 13:39:00 EST


On Mon, Jun 01, 2026 at 10:17:23AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> TLDR: maybe we could ghet rid of "f_op->splice_read". *That* would be
> a big simplification.

FUSE might be interesting - fuse_dev_splice_read() and its ilk.
Communications between the kernel and fuse server at least used to
seriously want that, so that would be one place to look for unhappy
userland...

splice-related logics in fs/fuse/dev.c is interesting; another place
like this is kernel/trace/, but I'm less familiar with that one.

rostedt Cc'd (miklos already had been)