linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3] splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files

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Message-ID: <554A3301.7010603@kernel.dk>
Date:	Wed, 06 May 2015 09:28:01 -0600
From:	Jens Axboe <axboe@...nel.dk>
To:	Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, herbert@...dor.apana.org.au
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-crypto@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3] splice: sendfile() at once fails for big files

On 05/06/2015 09:26 AM, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> Using sendfile with below small program to get MD5 sums of some files,
> it appear that big files (over 64kbytes with 4k pages system) get a
> wrong MD5 sum while small files get the correct sum.
> This program uses sendfile() to send a file to an AF_ALG socket
> for hashing.

Thanks, queued up for this series.

-- 
Jens Axboe

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