From: Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Sat, 18 Jan 2014 08:27:30 +0000 > BTW, would sockets benefit from having ->sendpages() that would take an > array of (page, offset, len) triples? It would be trivial to do and > some of the helpers that are falling out of writing that writev-based > default_file_splice_write() look like they could be reused for > calling that one... Dave? That's originally how the sendpage method was implemented, but back then Linus asked us to only pass one page at a time. I don't remember the details beyond that. -- 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
