Kernel 2.6.25 gets splice TCP read support.

[Steve French]

Jeremy Allison wrote:

>Steve,
>
>	You're supposed to be keeping me up to date
>on this stuff :-).
>
>http://lwn.net/Articles/266361/
>
>But it means that Samba 3.2 with a 2.6.25 kernel
>should be able to do TCP zerocopy read/write with
>Samba ! Eat your heart out Sun with your kernel
>CIFS implementation :-) :-).
>
>Any chance of doing some speed tests with that ?
>
>Jeremy.
>
>
>  
>
Not sure how that snuck by without my noticing it either ... I pull the 
new kernel every few days.
I have the current linux-2.6.git kernel with that in it, running Samba 
on the machine next to this, but have not tried our copy test on it.