On Wed, 19 May 2010, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 07:39 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > The real limitation is likely always going to be the fact that it has to > > be page-aligned and a full page. For a lot of splice inputs, that simply > > won't be the case, and you'll end up copying for alignment reasons anyway. > > That's understandable. For the use cases of splice I use, I work to make > it page aligned and full pages. Anyone else using splice for > optimizations, should do the same. It only makes sense. > > The end of buffer may not be a full page, but then it's the end anyway, > and I'm not as interested in the speed. Btw, since you apparently have a real case - is the "splice to file" always just an append? IOW, if I'm not right in assuming that the only sane thing people would reasonable care about is "append to a file", then holler now. Linus -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxx For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>