* Steven Rostedt (rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx) wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-19 at 07:59 -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > > 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. > > My use case is just to move the data from the ring buffer into a file > (or network) as fast as possible. It creates a new file and all > additions are "append to a file". > > I believe Mathieu does the same. > > With me, you are correct. Same here. My ring buffer only ever use splice() to append at the end of a file or to the network, and always outputs data in multiples of the page size. Thanks, Mathieu > > -- Steve > > -- Mathieu Desnoyers Operating System Efficiency R&D Consultant EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com -- 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>