Re: [PATCH] splice support #2

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* Jens Axboe <[email protected]> wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> This patch should resolve all issues mentioned so far. I'd still like 
> to implement the page moving, but that should just be a separate 
> patch.

neat stuff. One question: why do we require fdin or fdout to be a pipe?  
Is there any fundamental problem with implementing what Larry's original 
paper described too: straight pagecache -> socket transfers? Without a
pipe intermediary forced inbetween. It only adds unnecessary overhead.

	Ingo
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