Re: [PATCH 3/2] splice: increase pipe size in splice_direct_to_actor()

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On Thu, Nov 15, 2018 at 02:17:35AM -0800, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +long pipe_set_max_safe_size(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe)
> > +{
> > +	pipe_set_size(pipe, pipe_max_size);
> > +	return pipe->buffers * PAGE_SIZE;
> > +}
> 
> This should probably return an unsigned value, given that we don't return
> errors.  Then again the callers ignores the return value entirely.
> Wouldn't it be easier to just call pipe_set_size from splice.c after
> removing the static marker?

I didn't want to use pipe_max_size outside of the pipe code. it's
definitely simpler without a wrapper if using pipe_max_size directly
is acceptable.

Cheers,

Dave.
-- 
Dave Chinner
david@xxxxxxxxxxxxx



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