Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10

[Herbert Xu]

On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 11:52:17PM +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 12:49:46PM +0000, Jarek Poplawski wrote:
> > 
> > Hmm... in any case: take 3
> 
> Yes this should fix the corruption but it kind of defeats the
> purpose of splice by copying the data.

However, as we don't have a better fix yet, we probably should
take Jarek's patch for now since data corruption is bad.

This is a very hard problem, so in the end the only viable solution
might be to get the drivers to switch to using page frags, like
the Intel page split method.

Cheers,
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