On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jens Axboe wrote: > I have applied all three, thanks! However, I think we should be able to > pass in whether or not this is a strict splice or not. Falling back to > readv/writev is a good thing as it may help get the interface adopted > more widely, but I can also easily imagine cases where you'd want to > make sure that splice actually works without copies. It may even just be > for users to retry with alternative code paths, instead of proceeding > with the splice. SPLICE_F_MOVE is a soft flag in that it will move if it > can, but not fail if it can't. Perhaps we should add a flag that does > pass back an error if we can't just move pages around, SPLICE_F_STRICT > or something like that. Okay, seems pretty trivial. I'll do a patch. Thanks, 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
