Re: [rfc patch 3/4] splice: remove confirm from pipe_buf_operations

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On Tue, Jun 24, 2008 at 01:36:35PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi (miklos@xxxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> > basically like PageWriteback(), but for read-in.
> 
> OK it could be done, possibly at great pain.  But why is it important?

Maybe not that great if mark all readahead pages as, well, readahead,
and do the same for readpage (essnetially it is the same).

> What's the use case where it matters that splice-in should not block
> on the read?

To be able to transfer what was already read?

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	Evgeniy Polyakov
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