Re: Unexpected splice "always copy" behavior observed

[Mathieu Desnoyers]

* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 07:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > 
> 
> > Btw, since you apparently have a real case - is the "splice to file" 
> > always just an append? IOW, if I'm not right in assuming that the only 
> > sane thing people would reasonable care about is "append to a file", then 
> > holler now.
> 
> My use case is just to move the data from the ring buffer into a file
> (or network) as fast as possible. It creates a new file and all
> additions are "append to a file".
> 
> I believe Mathieu does the same.
> 
> With me, you are correct.

Same here. My ring buffer only ever use splice() to append at the end of a file
or to the network, and always outputs data in multiples of the page size.

Thanks,

Mathieu

> 
> -- Steve
> 
> 

-- 
Mathieu Desnoyers
Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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