From: Eric Wong <normalperson@...>
Date: 2017-09-05T10:52:15+00:00
Subject: [ruby-core:82652] Re: [Ruby trunk Feature#13867] Copy offloading in IO.copy_stream

glass.saga@gmail.com wrote:
> In linux 4.5, the copy offloading feature with copy_file_range(2) was introduced.
> This patch enables IO.copy_stream to use it.

Cool.

> If "offload" keyword argument is specified, IO.copy_stream will try copy offloading.

Is a new keyword arg necessary?  Since this is Linux-only, and
we already do fstat tests on both FDs in the sendfile checking:

We can try using copy_file_range if both src and dst are both
regular files with identical .st_dev, and fall back to using
sendfile on ENOSYS.

Thanks.

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