From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail143.messagelabs.com (mail143.messagelabs.com [216.82.254.35]) by kanga.kvack.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id CAC126008F0 for ; Wed, 19 May 2010 11:33:46 -0400 (EDT) In-reply-to: (message from Linus Torvalds on Wed, 19 May 2010 07:59:48 -0700 (PDT)) Subject: Re: Unexpected splice "always copy" behavior observed References: <20100518153440.GB7748@Krystal> <1274197993.26328.755.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <1274199039.26328.758.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> <20100519063116.GR2516@laptop> <1274280968.26328.774.camel@gandalf.stny.rr.com> Message-Id: From: Miklos Szeredi Date: Wed, 19 May 2010 17:33:11 +0200 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: rostedt@goodmis.org, npiggin@suse.de, mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com, peterz@infradead.org, fweisbec@gmail.com, tardyp@gmail.com, mingo@elte.hu, acme@redhat.com, tzanussi@gmail.com, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arjan@infradead.org, ziga.mahkovec@gmail.com, davem@davemloft.net, linux-mm@kvack.org, akpm@linux-foundation.org, kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com, cl@linux-foundation.org, tj@kernel.org, jens.axboe@oracle.com List-ID: On Wed, 19 May 2010, Linus Torvalds wrote: > Btw, since you apparently have a real case - is the "splice to file" > always just an append? IOW, if I'm not right in assuming that the only > sane thing people would reasonable care about is "append to a file", then > holler now. Virtual machines might reasonably need this for splicing to a disk image. Miklos -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: email@kvack.org