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* splice: add SPLICE_F_NONBLOCK flagLinus Torvalds2006-04-021-4/+21
| | | | | | | | | It doesn't make the splice itself necessarily nonblocking (because the actual file descriptors that are spliced from/to may block unless they have the O_NONBLOCK flag set), but it makes the splice pipe operations nonblocking. Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] splice exportsJeff Garzik2006-03-301-0/+4
| | | | | | | | Woe be unto he who builds their filesystems as modules. Signed-off-by: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> [ Obscure quote from the infamous geek bible? ] Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] splice: add support for SPLICE_F_MOVE flagJens Axboe2006-03-301-37/+84
| | | | | | | | | This enables the caller to migrate pages from one address space page cache to another. In buzz word marketing, you can do zero-copy file copies! Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
* [PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system callJens Axboe2006-03-301-0/+612
This adds support for the sys_splice system call. Using a pipe as a transport, it can connect to files or sockets (latter as output only). From the splice.c comments: "splice": joining two ropes together by interweaving their strands. This is the "extended pipe" functionality, where a pipe is used as an arbitrary in-memory buffer. Think of a pipe as a small kernel buffer that you can use to transfer data from one end to the other. The traditional unix read/write is extended with a "splice()" operation that transfers data buffers to or from a pipe buffer. Named by Larry McVoy, original implementation from Linus, extended by Jens to support splicing to files and fixing the initial implementation bugs. Signed-off-by: Jens Axboe <axboe@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>