Kernel 2.6.25 gets splice TCP read support.
Steve French
smfrench at austin.rr.com
Fri Feb 8 03:42:36 GMT 2008
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.
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