On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > There are no real disadvantages: splice() from a file was originally meant to > be asynchronous, but in reality it only did that for non-readahead pages, > which happen rarely. I still don't like this. I still don't see the point, and I still think there is something fundamentally wrong elsewhere. I also object to just dismissing the async nature as unimportant. Fix it instead. Make it use generic_file_readahead() or something. This is fixing things in all the wrong places, imnsho. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
