Re: splice status

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
>   converting them to ->splice_read(). There's also a patch there that
>   fixes up loop.

It actuaklly breaks loop in various setup.  You now directly call
do_generic_file_read which is just a library function for filesystems.
For example xfs or ocfs actually do need additional locking and/or other
bits before calling it.  So this absolutely has to go through a file
operation.

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