linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2] splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files

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Date:	Wed, 06 May 2015 08:23:48 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>
CC:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Crypto Mailing List <linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2] splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files

On 05/05/2015 09:41 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Jens, ping?
>
> The test results should make this a no-brainer, but I hate how random
> these flag ops.

Missed the original, apparently. I too am confused how this is a 
correctness fix and not just an optimization.

+               if (read_len < len)
+                       sd->flags |= SPLICE_F_MORE;
+               else if (!more)
+                       sd->flags &= ~SPLICE_F_MORE;

Should that check be for 'more', not '!more'?


-- 
Jens Axboe

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