linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/3] splice: implement default splice

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Date:	Tue, 19 May 2009 11:38:06 +0200
From:	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>
To:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>
Cc:	akpm@...ux-foundation.org, max@...mpel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch 2/3] splice: implement default splice_read method

On Mon, May 18 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> Hi Jens,
> 
> On Thu, 14 May 2009, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > On Thu, May 14 2009, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> > > > > Hmm.  Simple solution would be to do a write() for each buffer.  But
> > > > > this only affects HIGHMEM kernels, so it's a bit pointless to do that
> > > > > on all archs.  Sigh...
> > > > 
> > > > It is unfortunate, we are going to be stuck with that for some time
> > > > still...
> 
> Here's a patch that fixes the multiple kmap() issue.  It goes on top
> of the previous splice patches.

Thanks Miklos, applied.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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