On Fri, May 27, 2011 at 12:14:19AM -0500, Steve French wrote: > Did some informal testing of Jeff Layton's cifs async_write patch set > tonight (recent kernel). Copying 700MB sequentially was 20% faster > from cifs kernel client to Samba 3.6 with his patches - even mounted > over localhost (where network latency is a much smaller issue) and > with a slow laptop drive! > > I was simply doing > > time dd if=/dev/zero of=/mnt/null bs=1M count=700 > > repeated 4 times each way (with old module, and with same code with > Jeff's cifs async write code builtin), deleting the target file in > between each run. > > I am looking forward to trying this over GigE tomorrow to servers with > faster disks. Very nice ! Now where's my encrypted transport Steve ? :-) :-) Jeremy. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
