On Thu, Apr 6, 2023 at 11:42 AM David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Here's the first tranche of patches towards providing a MSG_SPLICE_PAGES > internal sendmsg flag that is intended to replace the ->sendpage() op with > calls to sendmsg(). MSG_SPLICE is a hint that tells the protocol that it > should splice the pages supplied if it can and copy them if not. > I find this patch series quite big/risky for 6.4 Can you spell out why we need "unspliceable pages support" ? This seems to add quite a lot of code in fast paths. Thanks.
