From: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
To: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>,
Pierre Tardy <tardyp@gmail.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
Tom Zanussi <tzanussi@gmail.com>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org,
ziga.mahkovec@gmail.com, davem <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
Tejun Heo <tj@kernel.org>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Nick Piggin <npiggin@suse.de>
Subject: Re: Unexpected splice "always copy" behavior observed
Date: Tue, 18 May 2010 12:10:39 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1274199039.26328.758.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1274197993.26328.755.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com>
On Tue, 2010-05-18 at 11:53 -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> I'm currently looking at the network code to see if it is better.
The network code seems to do the right thing. It sends the actual page
directly to the network.
Hopefully we can find a way to avoid the copy to file. But the splice
code was created to avoid the copy to and from userspace, it did not
guarantee no copy within the kernel itself.
-- Steve
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-05-18 16:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-05-18 15:34 Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-18 15:51 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-18 15:56 ` Christoph Lameter
2010-05-18 16:00 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-18 16:13 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-18 15:53 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-18 16:10 ` Steven Rostedt [this message]
2010-05-18 16:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 6:31 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-19 14:39 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 14:56 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-19 14:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 15:12 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-19 15:51 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-19 15:33 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-19 15:45 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-19 15:55 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-19 16:01 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-19 16:36 ` Steven Rostedt
2010-05-19 15:57 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-19 16:27 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-19 19:14 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-19 19:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 21:49 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-20 0:04 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-20 1:56 ` Mathieu Desnoyers
2010-05-20 14:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 20:59 ` Rick Sherm
2010-05-19 15:17 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-19 15:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 15:44 ` Nick Piggin
2010-05-19 15:28 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-19 15:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2010-05-19 15:56 ` Miklos Szeredi
2010-05-19 16:01 ` Linus Torvalds
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