Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 15:40:34 +0300
From: Evgeniy Polyakov <zbr@ioremap.net>
To: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
Cc: Jarek Poplawski <jarkao2@gmail.com>, Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>,
       Changli Gao <xiaosuo@gmail.com>,
       Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       netdev@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Data corruption issue with splice() on 2.6.27.10
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On Wed, Jan 07, 2009 at 01:35:04PM +0100, Jens Axboe (jens.axboe@oracle.com) wrote:
> Irregardless of that particular oddity, I don't think this is the right
> path to take at all. We need to delay the pipe buffer consumption until
> the appropriate time.

As a proof of concept we can put a delayed work_struct into the buffer
and only release its content after some timeout big enough (like one
second or so) for the hardware to actually transmit its buffers.

-- 
	Evgeniy Polyakov
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