Re: [patch 0/3] make splice more generic

[Miklos Szeredi]

On Mon, 11 May 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> I have applied all three, thanks! However, I think we should be able to
> pass in whether or not this is a strict splice or not. Falling back to
> readv/writev is a good thing as it may help get the interface adopted
> more widely, but I can also easily imagine cases where you'd want to
> make sure that splice actually works without copies. It may even just be
> for users to retry with alternative code paths, instead of proceeding
> with the splice. SPLICE_F_MOVE is a soft flag in that it will move if it
> can, but not fail if it can't. Perhaps we should add a flag that does
> pass back an error if we can't just move pages around, SPLICE_F_STRICT
> or something like that.

Okay, seems pretty trivial.  I'll do a patch.

Thanks,
Miklos
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