Re: [PATCH net-next v3 01/18] net: Copy slab data for sendmsg(MSG_SPLICE_PAGES)

[David Howells]

Paolo Abeni <pabeni@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> I'm unsure I follow the above ?!? I *thought* sendpage could be killed
> even without patch 1/18 and 2/18, leaving some patches in this series
> unmodified, and mangling those explicitly leveraging 1/18 to use
> multiple sendmsg()s with different flags?

That's what I meant.

With the example, I was showing the minimum needed replacement for a call to
sendpage.

David