From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Ofer Heifetz Subject: Splice status Date: Mon, 5 Jul 2010 12:26:03 +0300 Message-ID: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT To: "netdev@vger.kernel.org" Return-path: Received: from galiil.marvell.com ([199.203.130.254]:41033 "EHLO galiil.marvell.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753560Ab0GEJcl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 5 Jul 2010 05:32:41 -0400 Content-Language: en-US Sender: netdev-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Hi I have been trying to test splice on kernel 2.6.35_4 (x86) from Samba (v3.4.7) but could not copy more than ~60MB to the Samba server share. Strace shows that the splice got stuck in blocking mode on the splice call from socket to pipe. Has anyone managed to get splice from socket to fd work for large files (up to 4G file size) ? -Ofer