Re: [RFC PATCH v2 16/48] ip, udp: Support MSG_SPLICE_PAGES

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David Howells wrote:
> Willem de Bruijn <willemdebruijn.kernel@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > > diff --git a/net/ipv4/ip_output.c b/net/ipv4/ip_output.c
> > 
> > A non-RFC version would require the same for ipv6, of course.
> 
> I missed the fact that ipv6 had it's own version of __ip_append_data() despite
> sharing tcp_sendmsg().  Could __ip_append_data() and __ip6_append_data() be
> shared?  I guess that the v6_cork, the flowi6 and the ipcm6_cookie might
> prevent that.

We haven't been able to unify them before. As this series is
complex enough as is, I would not attempt to include it.

If it grows the code, maybe it'll be an incentive to take
another look afterwards.




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