On 02/21/2018 03:44 AM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> This patches introduces new process_vmsplice system call that combines >> functionality of process_vm_read and vmsplice. > > All seems fairly strightforward. The big question is: do we know that > people will actually use this, and get sufficient value from it to > justify its addition? Yes, that's what bothers us a lot too :) I've tried to start with finding out if anyone used the sys_read/write_process_vm() calls, but failed :( Does anybody know how popular these syscalls are? If its users operate on big amount of memory, they could benefit from the proposed splice extension. -- Pavel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
