From: Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@virtuozzo.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
criu@openvz.org, gdb@sourceware.org, devel@lists.open-mpi.org,
rr-dev@mozilla.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>,
Jann Horn <jannh@google.com>,
Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>,
Andrei Vagin <avagin@openvz.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe
Date: Mon, 26 Feb 2018 12:02:25 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3122ec5a-7f73-f6b4-33ea-8c10ef32e5b0@virtuozzo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180220164406.3ec34509376f16841dc66e34@linux-foundation.org>
On 02/21/2018 03:44 AM, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 9 Jan 2018 08:30:49 +0200 Mike Rapoport <rppt@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
>> This patches introduces new process_vmsplice system call that combines
>> functionality of process_vm_read and vmsplice.
>
> All seems fairly strightforward. The big question is: do we know that
> people will actually use this, and get sufficient value from it to
> justify its addition?
Yes, that's what bothers us a lot too :) I've tried to start with finding out if anyone
used the sys_read/write_process_vm() calls, but failed :( Does anybody know how popular
these syscalls are? If its users operate on big amount of memory, they could benefit from
the proposed splice extension.
-- Pavel
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-09 6:30 [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe Mike Rapoport
2018-01-09 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 1/4] fs/splice: introduce pages_to_pipe helper Mike Rapoport
2018-01-09 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 2/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe Mike Rapoport
2018-01-09 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 3/4] x86: wire up the process_vmsplice syscall Mike Rapoport
2018-01-11 17:10 ` kbuild test robot
2018-01-09 6:30 ` [PATCH v5 4/4] test: add a test for " Mike Rapoport
2018-02-21 0:44 ` [PATCH v5 0/4] vm: add a syscall to map a process memory into a pipe Andrew Morton
2018-02-26 9:02 ` Pavel Emelyanov [this message]
2018-02-26 16:38 ` [OMPI devel] " Nathan Hjelm
2018-02-27 7:10 ` Mike Rapoport
2018-02-27 2:18 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2018-02-28 6:11 ` Andrei Vagin
2018-02-28 7:12 ` Pavel Emelyanov
2018-02-28 17:50 ` Andrei Vagin
2018-02-28 23:12 ` [OMPI devel] " Atchley, Scott
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