linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/3] teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

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Message-ID: <CAHk-=wiWRjNwmyBXcLWSiHiLgG5jNxeFskSgTzdj=r9yn3Nbig@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 10:57:38 -0800
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
        Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
        Oliver Giles <ohw.giles@...il.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/3] teach sendfile(2) to handle send-to-pipe directly

On Mon, Jan 25, 2021 at 10:09 PM Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> no point going through the intermediate pipe

Ok, this series looks fine to me.

Al - do you want me to apply this as patches for 5.11 (and I'll revert
the then unnecessary one-liner), or should I expect a pull request or
what?

              Linus