[Samba] sendfile

[Volker Lendecke]

On Thu, Jan 07, 2010 at 04:05:35PM -0500, Learner Study wrote:
> 1. sendfile() takes a input-fd and out-fd so why can't that be used
> for WRITE operation (i.e. reading from socket fd on network side and
> writing to file fd towards the disk).

The manpage for sendfile that I right now have at hand says:

       Presently  (Linux  2.6.9):  in_fd, must correspond to a file which sup-
       ports mmap(2)-like operations (i.e., it cannot be a socket); and out_fd
       must refer to a socket.

If you have any pointers that this has changed in recent
versions of Linux or any other Unix, please give me a
pointer to it!

> 2. Without sendfile() (in WRITE operation), data is read from socket
> in user space before being written back to the disk (kernel space).
> So, there are two copies (one during socket read and second during
> disk write).
> Is that correct understanding?

Yes. This is exactly what we have tried to tune away by
using splice, but as Samba so far is a single-threaded
daemon, this very quickly leads to a deadlock.

Volker
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