Re: [PATCH 04/11] splice: lift pipe_lock out of splice_to_pipe()

Linus Torvalds <[email protected]> Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:36:12 -0700

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On Fri, Sep 23, 2016 at 1:10 PM, Al Viro <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> OTOH, considering the quality of documentation, I'm somewhat tempted to go
> for "sleep only if it had been completely full when we entered; once there's
> some space feed as much as fits and be done with that".  OTTH, I'm not sure
> that no userland cr^Hode will manage to be hurt by that variant...

Let's just try it.

If that then doesn't work, we can introduce your odd code (with a
*big* comment). Ok?

               Linus

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