Re: [PATCH 0/3] vmsplice: make vmsplice a trivial wrapper for preadv2/pwritev2

[David Laight <david.laight.linux@gmail.com>]

On Fri, 5 Jun 2026 17:20:34 +0200
Stefan Metzmacher <metze@samba.org> wrote:

> Hi David,
> 
> >>> So sendfile() as a concept (whether you use combinations of splice()
> >>> system calls or the sendfile system call itsefl) isn't necessarily
> >>> only about the zero-copy, it's really also about avoiding the user
> >>> space memory management.  
> >>
> >> I don't think so. Ok, maybe for webservers just serving tiny
> >> html files, that's true. But for me with Samba it's really the
> >> copy_to/from_iter() that is the major factor.  
> > 
> > Is that copy also doing the ip checksum?  
> 
> Not in my tests. I guess there's offload in the network hardware
> for this.

There will be, it is just whether the syscall checksum is actually
being suppressed.

-- David

> 
> At least at the syscall layer of sendmsg() there's no checksuming
> happening.
> 
> metze
>