From: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
To: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>
Cc: David Howells <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
Linux API Mailing List <[email protected]>,
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Subject: Re: copy on write for splice() from file to pipe?
Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2023 12:51:21 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAHk-=wi=JeuB3aDX4yej=9SE-J6RR9LG28eRVfntkoQCPpHNpw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>
On Fri, Feb 10, 2023 at 12:45 PM Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> I guess it would be easy to pass a flag (maybe SPLICE_F_FORCE_COPY)
> down to generic_file_splice_read() and let it create dedicated pages
> and use memcpy() from the page cache to the dedicated pages.
I really think you'd be much better off passing it off to the
*destination*, not the source.
The destination knows whether it needs to copy or not, and in the case
of at least networking, already has the copy option.
The destination might also already know whether it can use the data
synchronously, so that there isn't even any issue with "data may
change later".
In contrast, the source has no clue. It just knows "I'm a page cache
page". It would have to always copy.
Linus
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2023-02-10 20:51 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 [this message]
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
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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