From: Nathan Scott <nathans@sgi.com>
To: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH][RFC] splice support
Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 07:49:57 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060330074957.C921158@wobbly.melbourne.sgi.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060329132724.GF8186@suse.de>; from axboe@suse.de on Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:27:25PM +0200
On Wed, Mar 29, 2006 at 03:27:25PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 29 2006, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> > to cause sys_splice() to default to supported?
>
> It should probably work, the fs guys should know more about that. Any fs
> that ->prepare_write(), ->commit_write() works for can use
> generic_file_splice_write(). I prefer to keep it sane for now, mason
> tells me that eg xfs might need special care.
It looks pretty straightforward to get XFS support done - we will
likely need routines that wrap around generic_file_splice_read /
write to handle offline files for an HSM, etc, but not too tricky.
I'll make the XFS changes once the generic support is in place.
cheers.
--
Nathan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-03-29 21:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-03-29 12:28 Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 12:30 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 13:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-29 13:27 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:49 ` Nathan Scott [this message]
2006-03-29 20:06 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-29 20:42 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 20:43 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 21:14 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 6:17 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-29 22:37 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 0:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-03-30 1:04 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-03-30 1:20 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 6:18 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:08 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 3:44 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:21 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:30 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 3:10 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:16 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:09 ` Jan Engelhardt
2006-03-30 7:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:10 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 8:25 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:27 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 8:50 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:51 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:15 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:40 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 9:45 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 9:56 ` Andrew Morton
2006-03-30 10:01 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 2:36 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 7:00 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 7:33 ` Nick Piggin
2006-03-30 8:54 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 13:53 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:05 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2006-03-30 14:38 ` Jens Axboe
2006-03-30 14:55 ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
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2005-12-19 9:16 Jens Axboe
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