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From: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>
To: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>,
	Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Dave Chinner <[email protected]>,
	Matthew Wilcox <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>,
	linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
	Linux API Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>,
	"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
	Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	Samba Technical <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: copy on write for splice() from file to pipe?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 13:32:02 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=wgA=rB=7M_Fe3n9UkoW_7dqdUT2D=yb94=6GiGXEuAHDA@mail.gmail.com>

On 2/10/23 1:27 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 11:56 AM Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> i think this is almost exactly what Jeremy and Stefan are asking for
>> re: notification when the system is done with a zero-copy send:
> 
> Yeah, right now it's all just "incremented page counts", I think.
> 
> Even the pipe code itself doesn't know about writes that have already
> been done, but that are pending elsewhere.
> 
> You'd have to ask the target file descriptor itself about "how much do
> you have pending" or something.

No, we very much do have that for io_uring zerocopy sends, which was in
the bit below you snipped from the reply. It'll tell you when data has
been sent out, and when the data has been acked. Or what am I missing
here? Late to this thread, and there's a ton of stuff go to through.

-- 
Jens Axboe



  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-10 20:32 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 64+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-09 13:55 copy on write for splice() from file to pipe? Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-09 14:11 ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-09 14:29   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-09 16:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-09 19:17   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-09 19:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-09 19:48       ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-09 20:33         ` Jeremy Allison
2023-02-10 20:45         ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-10 20:51           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10  2:16   ` Dave Chinner
2023-02-10  4:06     ` Dave Chinner
2023-02-10  4:44       ` Matthew Wilcox
2023-02-10  6:57         ` Dave Chinner
2023-02-10 15:14           ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-10 16:33             ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 17:57               ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-10 18:19                 ` Jeremy Allison
2023-02-10 19:29                   ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-10 18:37                 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 19:01                   ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-10 19:18                     ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 19:27                       ` Jeremy Allison
2023-02-10 19:42                         ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-10 19:42                         ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 19:54                           ` Stefan Metzmacher
2023-02-10 19:29                       ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-13  9:07                         ` Herbert Xu
2023-02-10 19:55                       ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-10 20:27                         ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 20:32                           ` Jens Axboe [this message]
2023-02-10 20:36                             ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 20:39                               ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 20:44                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 20:50                                   ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 21:14                                     ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-10 21:27                                       ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 21:51                                         ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 22:08                                           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 22:16                                             ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 22:17                                             ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 22:25                                               ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10 22:35                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 22:51                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-11  3:18                                             ` Ming Lei
2023-02-11  6:17                                               ` Ming Lei
2023-02-11 14:13                                               ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-11 15:05                                                 ` Ming Lei
2023-02-11 15:33                                                   ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-11 18:57                                                     ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-12  2:46                                                       ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-10  4:47       ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10  6:19         ` Dave Chinner
2023-02-10 17:23           ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-10 17:47             ` Linus Torvalds
2023-02-13  9:28               ` Herbert Xu
2023-02-10 22:41             ` David Laight
2023-02-10 22:51               ` Jens Axboe
2023-02-13  9:30               ` Herbert Xu
2023-02-13  9:25           ` Herbert Xu
2023-02-13 18:01             ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-14  1:22               ` Herbert Xu
2023-02-17 23:13                 ` Andy Lutomirski
2023-02-20  4:54                   ` Herbert Xu

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