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From: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>
To: Ming Lei <[email protected]>
Cc: Jens Axboe <[email protected]>,
	[email protected], [email protected],
	[email protected], [email protected],
	Miklos Szeredi <[email protected]>,
	Stefan Hajnoczi <[email protected]>,
	ZiyangZhang <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 3/4] io_uring/splice: support splice from ->splice_read to ->splice_read
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2022 23:45:06 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <[email protected]>

On Thu, Nov 03, 2022 at 04:50:03PM +0800, Ming Lei wrote:
> The 1st ->splice_read produces buffer to the pipe of
> current->splice_pipe, and the 2nd ->splice_read consumes the buffer
> in this pipe.

This looks really ugly.  I think you want Linus and Al to look over
it at very least.

Also, what is going to happen if your ->splice_read instance does not
support the flag to magically do something entirely different?

  reply	other threads:[~2022-11-08  7:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2022-11-03  8:50 [RFC PATCH 0/4] io_uring/splice: extend splice for supporting ublk zero copy Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 1/4] io_uring/splice: support do_splice_direct Ming Lei
2022-11-08  7:42   ` Christoph Hellwig
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 2/4] fs/splice: add helper of splice_dismiss_pipe() Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 3/4] io_uring/splice: support splice from ->splice_read to ->splice_read Ming Lei
2022-11-08  7:45   ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2022-11-08  8:29     ` Ming Lei
2022-11-03  8:50 ` [RFC PATCH 4/4] ublk_drv: support splice based read/write zero copy Ming Lei
2022-11-03 22:28   ` Bernd Schubert
2022-11-04  0:44     ` Ming Lei
2022-11-04 23:37       ` Bernd Schubert
2022-11-07  1:05         ` Ming Lei
2022-11-04  9:15 ` [RFC PATCH 0/4] io_uring/splice: extend splice for supporting ublk " Ziyang Zhang

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