Re: patch for splice system call.

[Coywolf Qi Hunt <coywolf@gmail.com>]

2005/12/13, Deven Balani <devenbalani@gmail.com>:
> Hi All!
>
> I am routing data from a tuner to harddisk.
> I came to know splice() is something related to do real-time IO.
> I believe direct IO doesn't address this scenario.
>
> Can any one refer me the source to the patch of splice() system call.
>

sendfile (2) ?

> Regards,
> Deven
>
> On 12/9/05, Alex Riesen <raa.lkml@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On 12/9/05, Deven Balani <devenbalani@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > I am writing a libata-complaint SATA driver for an ARM board.
> > >
> > > I want to do data streaming from a tuner into the SATA hard disk.
> > >
> > > In other words, I am getting a buffer of stream in kernel space, which
> > > I had to store it in SATA hard disk.
> >
> > can this be of interest:
> >
> > http://groups.google.de/group/fa.linux.kernel/browse_frm/thread/21b2b3215f35e21a/bcbc00b7a0151afd?tvc=1&q=linux-kernel+Make+pipe+data+structure+be+a+circular+list+of+pages#bcbc00b7a0151afd
> >
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