From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753546AbZJAWYk (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:24:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753514AbZJAWYj (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:24:39 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:43265 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753357AbZJAWYi (ORCPT ); Thu, 1 Oct 2009 18:24:38 -0400 Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2009 15:24:30 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: David Miller cc: eric.dumazet@gmail.com, jgunthorpe@obsidianresearch.com, vl@samba.org, opurdila@ixiacom.com, netdev@vger.kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , Jens Axboe Subject: Re: SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK semantics... In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: <20091001.151102.09812927.davem@davemloft.net> User-Agent: Alpine 2.01 (LFD 1184 2008-12-16) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, 1 Oct 2009, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > Ack. The original intent was for the flag to affect the buffering, not the > end points. Side note, in case it wasn't clear: I added Jens to the cc, because in the end my "original intent" probably doesn't matter all that much. I may have set up the basic ideas and so on, but I never wrote any apps that use it, and Jens has done most of the actual fixes since. So give "my original intent" the weight (or rather, lack there-of) that it deserves. Linus