Jens Axboe wrote: > SPLICE_F_MOVE is a soft flag in that it will move if it > can, but not fail if it can't. According to local man page, it's not even that. SPLICE_F_MOVE [...] The initial implementation of this flag was buggy: therefore starting in Linux 2.6.21 it is a *no-op* (but is still permitted in a splice() call); in the future, a correct implementation may be restored. > 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. What should it do in cases where the kernel would choose to copy data, i.e. data that isn't a whole page? -- Jamie -- 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
