Re: [PATCH RFC 0/3] simple copy offloading system call

2015-05-05 Thread Michael Kerrisk
[CC += linux-...@vger.kernel.org] Zach, Since this is a kernel-user-space API change, please CC linux-api@. The kernel source file Documentation/SubmitChecklist notes that all Linux kernel patches that change userspace interfaces should be CCed to linux-...@vger.kernel.org, so that the various pa

[PATCH RFC 0/3] simple copy offloading system call

2015-04-10 Thread Zach Brown
Hello everyone! Here's my current attempt at the most basic system call interface for offloading copying between files. The system call and vfs function are relatively light wrappers around the file_operation method that does the heavy lifting. There was interest at LSF in getting the basic infr