On Wed, 7 Jun 2023 15:05:49 +0100 David Howells wrote: > Add an optional method, ->splice_eof(), to allow splice to indicate the > premature termination of a splice to struct file_operations and struct > proto_ops. > > This is called if sendfile() or splice() encounters all of the following > conditions inside splice_direct_to_actor(): > > (1) the user did not set SPLICE_F_MORE (splice only), and > > (2) an EOF condition occurred (->splice_read() returned 0), and > > (3) we haven't read enough to fulfill the request (ie. len > 0 still), and > > (4) we have already spliced at least one byte. > > A further patch will modify the behaviour of SPLICE_F_MORE to always be > passed to the actor if either the user set it or we haven't yet read > sufficient data to fulfill the request. Reviewed-by: Jakub Kicinski <kuba@xxxxxxxxxx>
