David Hildenbrand <david@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > As raised already somewhere in the whole discussion by me, the right way to > take such a long-term ping as vmsplice() does is to use > FOLL_PIN|FOLL_LONGTERM. So the pipe infrastructure would have to be able to pin pages instead of carrying refs on them? What about pages just allocated and added to the pipe ring in normal pipe use? David