On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > On Wed, Jul 30 2008, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > > On Wed, 30 Jul 2008, Jens Axboe wrote: > > > > You snipped the part where Linus objected to dismissing the async > > > > nature, I fully agree with that part. > > > > And also note in what Nick said in the referenced mail: it would be > > nice if someone actually _cared_ about the async nature. The fact > > that it has been broken from the start, and nobody noticed is a strong > > hint that currently there isn't anybody who does. > > That's largely due to the (still) lack of direct splice users. It's a > clear part of the design and benefit of using splice. I very much care > about this, and as soon as there are available cycles for this, I'll get > it into better shape in this respect. Taking a step backwards is not the > right way forward, imho. So what is? The only way forward is to put those cycles into it, which nobody seems to have available. Take this patch as a bugfix. It's not in any way showing the way forward: as soon as you have the time, you can revert it and start from the current state. Hmm? Miklos -- 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
