On Tue, Jun 12 2007, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jun 2007 14:44:50 +0200 Jens Axboe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> > splice
>
> btw, I'm staring in profound mystification at this:
>
> int generic_pipe_buf_steal(struct pipe_inode_info *pipe,
> struct pipe_buffer *buf)
> {
> struct page *page = buf->page;
>
> if (page_count(page) == 1) {
> lock_page(page);
> return 0;
> }
>
> return 1;
> }
>
>
> afacit that `if page_count(page)' test could be replaced by
> `if today_is_tuesday()'. But then I don't have the foggiest idea
> what it's trying to do.
>
> It would be nice to get some comments in and around here.
>
> Also, I was trying to work out the role and responsibility of the ->pin
> callback, and gave up.
>
> There isn't a lot of point in explaining this over email - one should be
> able to gain an understanding of these things by reading the code. I think
> the best way of tackling this would be to comprehensively document
> pipe_buf_operations and pipe_inode_info, please...
OK so I wont explain it in detail here, I'll write up a good set of
comments tonight.
--
Jens Axboe
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