From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261331AbVALUBm (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:01:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261337AbVALUAK (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 15:00:10 -0500 Received: from x35.xmailserver.org ([69.30.125.51]:1229 "EHLO x35.xmailserver.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261331AbVALTup (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:50:45 -0500 X-AuthUser: davidel@xmailserver.org Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 11:50:42 -0800 (PST) From: Davide Libenzi X-X-Sender: davide@bigblue.dev.mdolabs.com To: Linus Torvalds cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Hugh Dickins Subject: Re: Make pipe data structure be a circular list of pages, rather than In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: X-GPG-FINGRPRINT: CFAE 5BEE FD36 F65E E640 56FE 0974 BF23 270F 474E X-GPG-PUBLIC_KEY: http://www.xmailserver.org/davidel.asc MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > On Sun, 9 Jan 2005, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > > Since you guys stupidly showed interest, here's a very first-order > > approximation of filling the pipe from some other source. > > Here's a somewhat fixed and tested version, which actually does something > on x86. Question. How do you think to splice() skb pages, or any other non page-based format? - Davide