Re: [PATCH] splice support #2

[Ingo Molnar]

* Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 30 2006, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > 
> > > > I agree with the purpose of making sys_splice() generic and in 
> > > > particular usable in scripts/shells where pipes are commonly used, but 
> > > > we should also fulfill the original promise (outlined 15 years ago or 
> > > > so) and not limit this to pipes. That way i could improve TUX to make 
> > > > use of it for example ;)
> > > 
> > > There's absolutely no reason why we can't add fd -> fd splicing as 
> > > well, so no worries. Right now we just require a pipe transport. It's 
> > > extendable :-)
> > 
> > ok :) I think this code should be merged into v2.6.17 - it's very clean 
> > and unintrusive.
> 
> I hope so, too. I'll post a hopefully finished patch real soon, and 
> then the move pages addon afterwards (which works now).

what does the move pages addon do? pagecache->pagecache transfer?

	Ingo
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