Zero-copy patch

Volker Lendecke Volker.Lendecke at SerNet.DE
Tue Feb 1 04:17:35 MST 2011


On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 08:42:35PM -0500, Jacky Lam wrote:
> Does any one have the kernel patch for zero-copy from skb
> to IO buffer/cache? The performance of Samba using splice
> is slowing down because of busy to copy the buffer from
> socket.

Wait -- If I used 2 splice calls, one from TCP socket to a
pipe and the second from the pipe to a on-disk file it still
does a copy internally?

Volker

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