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| author | Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com> | 2012-04-04 09:08:51 (GMT) |
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| committer | Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk> | 2012-04-20 08:20:05 (GMT) |
| commit | bd1a68b59c8e3bce45fb76632c64e1e063c3962d (patch) | |
| tree | 20ee27961256383e8eccb8236f901315623383f9 /ipc | |
| parent | a637120e49021d197e9578cba545bbaa459cbb51 (diff) | |
| download | linux-bd1a68b59c8e3bce45fb76632c64e1e063c3962d.tar.xz | |
vmsplice: relax alignement requirements for SPLICE_F_GIFT
It seems there is no fundamental reason to limit vmsplice()
SPLICE_F_GIFT to page aligned chunks.
All helpers are prepared to cope with offsets in page.
This limitation makes vmsplice() API very impractical in the zero-copy
land.
Signed-off-by: Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@gmail.com>
Cc: Tom Herbert <therbert@google.com>
Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>
Cc: Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>
Cc: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@kernel.dk>
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