From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.de>, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: hch@lst.de, smfrench@gmail.com, linux-unionfs@vger.kernel.org,
david@fromorbit.com, Goldwyn Rodrigues <rgoldwyn@suse.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/4] copy_file_range: Perform splice if in/out SB are not same
Date: Tue, 8 May 2018 23:57:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <a0ed27fb-c085-f1fc-733b-964db4ca20f4@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180508212405.15297-3-rgoldwyn@suse.de>
On 05/08/2018 11:24 PM, Goldwyn Rodrigues wrote:
> While performing copy_file_range(), if superblocks of file_in and
> file_out don't match, instead of returning -EXDEV, perform
> splice for a faster copy.
We have a userspace emulation in glibc which used to be quite faithful,
including the EXDEV error (which is not strictly necessary to produce).
Should we change glibc to perform a userspace copy if the system call
returns EXDEV due to an older kernel?
Thanks,
Florian
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-05-08 21:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-05-08 21:24 [PATCH v1 0/5] Enable holes on copy_file_range() Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-08 21:24 ` [PATCH 1/4] copy_file_range: refactor vfs_copy_file_range Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-08 21:24 ` [PATCH 2/4] copy_file_range: Perform splice if in/out SB are not same Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-08 21:57 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2018-05-09 19:08 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-09 5:44 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-08 21:24 ` [PATCH 3/4] copy_file_range: splice with holes Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-08 21:59 ` Florian Weimer
2018-05-08 23:43 ` Dave Chinner
2018-05-09 5:47 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-08 21:24 ` [PATCH 4/4] ovl: Use do_copy_file_range() in copy_up_data() Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-09 5:50 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-09 19:13 ` Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-10 4:52 ` Amir Goldstein
2018-05-10 1:58 [PATCH v2 0/4] Enable holes in copy_file_range() Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-10 1:58 ` [PATCH 2/4] copy_file_range: Perform splice if in/out SB are not same Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-14 14:56 [PATCH v3 0/4] Enable holes in copy_file_range() Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-05-14 14:56 ` [PATCH 2/4] copy_file_range: Perform splice if in/out SB are not same Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-06-14 15:12 [PATCH RESEND v3 0/4] Enable holes in copy_file_range() Goldwyn Rodrigues
2018-06-14 15:12 ` [PATCH 2/4] copy_file_range: Perform splice if in/out SB are not same Goldwyn Rodrigues
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