Kernel 2.6.25 gets splice TCP read support.

[ronnie sahlberg]

Running cifs in the kernel schmernel,

unless they can sustain 1GByte per second onto the wire for CIFS they
would still be pretty slow in my book.



On Fri, Feb 8, 2008 at 2:23 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> 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.
>