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authorJens Axboe <axboe@suse.de>2006-03-30 15:15:30 +0200
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@g5.osdl.org>2006-03-30 12:28:18 -0800
commit5274f052e7b3dbd81935772eb551dfd0325dfa9d (patch)
treec79f813ec513660edb6f1e4a75cb366c6b84f53f /net/socket.c
parent5d4fe2c1ce83c3e967ccc1ba3d580c1a5603a866 (diff)
[PATCH] Introduce sys_splice() system call
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>
Diffstat (limited to 'net/socket.c')
-rw-r--r--net/socket.c6
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/net/socket.c b/net/socket.c
index fcd77eac0cc..b13042f68c0 100644
--- a/net/socket.c
+++ b/net/socket.c
@@ -119,6 +119,9 @@ static ssize_t sock_writev(struct file *file, const struct iovec *vector,
static ssize_t sock_sendpage(struct file *file, struct page *page,
int offset, size_t size, loff_t *ppos, int more);
+extern ssize_t generic_splice_sendpage(struct inode *inode, struct file *out,
+ size_t len, unsigned int flags);
+
/*
* Socket files have a set of 'special' operations as well as the generic file ones. These don't appear
@@ -141,7 +144,8 @@ static struct file_operations socket_file_ops = {
.fasync = sock_fasync,
.readv = sock_readv,
.writev = sock_writev,
- .sendpage = sock_sendpage
+ .sendpage = sock_sendpage,
+ .splice_write = generic_splice_sendpage,
};
/*