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From: Jeremy Allison <[email protected]>
To: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>
Cc: Stefan Metzmacher <[email protected]>, Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	Linux API Mailing List <[email protected]>,
	Samba Technical <[email protected]>,
	"[email protected]" <[email protected]>,
	Al Viro <[email protected]>,
	linux-fsdevel <[email protected]>,
	io-uring <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: copy on write for splice() from file to pipe?
Date: Thu, 9 Feb 2023 12:33:00 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Y+VYfHcNdvez6M2a@jeremy-acer> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHk-=whprvcY=KRh15uqtmVqR2rL-H1yN6RaswHiWPsGHDqsSQ@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 11:48:35AM -0800, Linus Torvalds via samba-technical wrote:
>
>So this is exactly *why* splicing from a file all the way to the
>network will then show any file changes that have happened in between
>that "splice started" and "network card got the data". You're supposed
>to use splice only when you can guarantee the data stability (or,
>alternatively, when you simply don't care about the data stability,
>and getting the changed data is perfectly fine).

Metze, correct me if I'm wrong but isn't this exactly the "file
is leased in SMB3" case ?

We already know if a file is leased, and so only use the splice calls
for I/O in that case, and fall back to the slower calls in the
non-leased case.

  reply	other threads:[~2023-02-09 20:33 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 [this message]
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
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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