With introduction of packetized pipes, splice wasn't updated to respect this new behaviour. In terms of splice it means, that it never set PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET on created pipe buffer regarless pipe operating mode, thus breaking the whole logic. To fix this, new SPLICE_F_PACKET flag was introduced. It's supposed to be used only in kernel and set, when write pipe is in packetized mode. In splice_to_pipe() it's converted into created pipe buffer PIPE_BUF_FLAG_PACKET flag. The following series implements... --- Stanislav Kinsburskiy (3): pipe: make is_packetized() non-static and declare in pipe_fs_i.h splice: new SPLICE_F_PACKET flag introduced splice: add support of splicing to packetized pipe fs/pipe.c | 2 +- fs/splice.c | 8 ++++++++ include/linux/pipe_fs_i.h | 2 ++ include/linux/splice.h | 5 +++++ 4 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) -- 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