linux-kernel - Re: NFS write OOPS with 2.6.29.2

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Date:	Wed, 13 May 2009 16:20:02 +0530
From:	Suresh Jayaraman <sjayaraman@...e.de>
To:	Trond Myklebust <trond.myklebust@....uio.no>
CC:	Holger Kiehl <Holger.Kiehl@....de>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: NFS write OOPS with 2.6.29.2

Trond Myklebust wrote:
> On Mon, 2009-05-11 at 12:45 +0000, Holger Kiehl wrote:
>> On Mon, 11 May 2009, Trond Myklebust wrote:
>>>
>> Thanks! Now it works. One more problem I have is with splice(). My
>> application reports the following error:
>>
>>     splice() error : Invalid argument
>>
>> When it is called as follows:
>>
>>      if ((bytes_written = splice(fd_pipe[0], NULL, to_fd,
>>                                  NULL, bytes_read,
>>                                  SPLICE_F_MOVE | SPLICE_F_MORE)) == -1)
>>
>> Or may I not use splice() over NFS?
> 
> The read part is there, but the write part is still missing (just an
> oversight - implementing it is pretty trivial). I'm planning on fixing
> that for 2.6.31.
> 

Did my latest respun look OK?

http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/4/22/70


Thanks,

-- 
Suresh Jayaraman
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