On Thu, Apr 20, 2006 at 04:29:03PM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> converting them to ->splice_read(). There's also a patch there that
> fixes up loop.
It actuaklly breaks loop in various setup. You now directly call
do_generic_file_read which is just a library function for filesystems.
For example xfs or ocfs actually do need additional locking and/or other
bits before calling it. So this absolutely has to go through a file
operation.
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