linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/11] splice cleanups

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Date:   Fri, 16 Sep 2016 04:24:03 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@...hat.com>
Cc:     linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/11] splice cleanups

On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 10:37:05AM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> This contains assorted cleanups in the splice area:
> 
>  - add helpers for pipe buf ops instead of directly calling them
> 
>  - page cache buf doesn't seem to need confirming (since ages)
> 
>  - generic_file_splice_read() and generic_file_read() have lots of
>    duplication

The whole series looks great to me:

Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>