From: Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>
To: jens.axboe@oracle.com
Cc: miklos@szeredi.hu, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, npiggin@suse.de
Subject: Re: [rfc patch 2/4] splice: remove steal from pipe_buf_operations
Date: Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:50:35 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1KB4EV-0000u3-5j@pomaz-ex.szeredi.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080624080152.GI20851@kernel.dk> (message from Jens Axboe on Tue, 24 Jun 2008 10:01:54 +0200)
> On Sat, Jun 21 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
> >
> > The 'steal' operation hasn't been used for some time. Remove it and
> > the associated dead code. If it's needed in the future, it can always
> > be easily restored.
>
> I'd rather not just remove this, it's basically waiting for Nick to make
> good on his promise to make stealing work again (he disabled it).
Yes, I read the commit log. He disabled it with the intent that we
may or may not want this interface back, and possibly in some other
form.
Jens, does somebody need this feature? What for? If not, then I
guess nobody will bother implementing it.
(Nick CC-d)
Thanks,
Miklos
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-24 8:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-21 15:46 [rfc patch 0/4] splice: cleanups and fixes Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-21 15:46 ` [rfc patch 1/4] splice: fix comment Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-21 15:46 ` [rfc patch 2/4] splice: remove steal from pipe_buf_operations Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 8:01 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-24 8:50 ` Miklos Szeredi [this message]
2008-06-24 12:21 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-21 15:46 ` [rfc patch 3/4] splice: remove confirm " Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 8:04 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-24 8:54 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 11:19 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-24 11:36 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 11:46 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-06-24 12:02 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 12:15 ` Evgeniy Polyakov
2008-06-24 12:16 ` Nick Piggin
2008-06-24 12:22 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-24 13:00 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 17:30 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-24 18:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 18:31 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-24 19:05 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 19:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-24 19:24 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 19:26 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 19:32 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 19:47 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-24 20:06 ` Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2008-06-21 15:46 ` [rfc patch 4/4] splice: use do_generic_file_read() Miklos Szeredi, Miklos Szeredi
2008-06-24 8:05 ` Jens Axboe
2008-06-24 11:11 ` Miklos Szeredi
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