[Samba] Samba write performance in kernel

Jeremy Allison jra at samba.org
Tue Aug 26 17:41:24 GMT 2008


On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 01:12:13AM +0800, Lin Mac wrote:
> 
> hi Jeremy,
> splice is support after linux 2.6.17. Does it means that splice+RECEIVEFILEI would work on samba 3.2.x on linux 2.6.17 or later version?
> I would try it tomorrow, but it seems that it won't work right now, right?

splice isn't a fully functional system call unfortunately. It works
for file -> socket, or pipe -> pipe, but when I tested it it didn't
work with socket -> file.

Your Millage May Vary (depending on Linux kernel release) unfortunately.

Jeremy.


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