Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Apr 2006 00:00:53 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: splice status |
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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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