[Samba] Perf enhancements in Samba4.1 related to SMB2.1 / SMB3.0 protocol

[sp bglr]

Thanks.
Doubt about,  recvfile patch is referring to?
Please help me to underrated more about it.
What type of recvfile patch will help to improve perf , something brief
about it will be more helpful.

Thanks,
Bglr


On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:38 PM, Jeremy Allison <jra at samba.org> wrote:

> On Thu, May 15, 2014 at 12:14:37PM +0530, sp bglr wrote:
> > In samba4.1 splices from socket to pipe , then from pipe to socket?
>
> From socket to pipe, then from pipe to file.
>
> That's the way the interface is supposed
> to work, and indeed it does do that. However,
> as I said, it's slower than the read/write
> path.
>
> > Writing
> > a recvfile patch related to this is considerable?
> > or anything else can be done to achieve the goal?
>
> I posted a version of the kernel patch
> to implement recvfile to the kernel
> mailing list - got rejected of course
> (but it wasn't very nice code :-). If
> you want to fix that up and get it upstream
> many people would be very happy with
> you :-).
>
> Jeremy
>