On 2010-12-12 22:23, MichaÅ MirosÅaw wrote: > This patch pulls calls to buf->ops->confirm() from all actors passed > (also indirectly) to splice_from_pipe_feed(). Why? The point of ->confirm() is to ensure that the contents are stable, otherwise the pages in the pipe could merely be in flight. It's needed if you need to actually look at the data, rather than just reference it. -- Jens Axboe -- 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
