On Wed, 19 May 2010, 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. Another limitation I found while splicing from one file to another is that stealing from the source file's page cache does not always succeed. This turned out to be because of a reference from the lru cache for freshly read pages. I'm not sure how this could be fixed. Miklos -- 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>