From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S965547AbXCOMpd (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:45:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S965550AbXCOMpd (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:45:33 -0400 Received: from mail.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:50222 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S965547AbXCOMpc (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2007 08:45:32 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2007 13:45:31 +0100 From: Nick Piggin To: Jens Axboe Cc: Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux Memory Management List Subject: Re: [patch 1/2] splice: dont steal Message-ID: <20070315124531.GD8321@wotan.suse.de> References: <20070314121440.GA926@wotan.suse.de> <20070315115237.GM15400@kernel.dk> <20070315122207.GA8321@wotan.suse.de> <20070315122723.GQ15400@kernel.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070315122723.GQ15400@kernel.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Mar 15, 2007 at 01:27:23PM +0100, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Thu, Mar 15 2007, Nick Piggin wrote: > > > > We should be able to allow for it with the new a_ops API I'm working > > on. > > "Should be" and in progress stuff, is it guarenteed to get there? Well considering that it is needed in order to solve 3 different deadlock scenarios in the core write(2) path without taking a big performance hit, I'd hope so ;) It isn't guaranteed, but I have only had positive feedback so far. Would take a while to actually get merged, though. Nick