2011/8/26 Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxx>: > This patchset does a fairly major cleanup and overhaul of the receive > codepath for cifs. Aside from basic cleanup, there are two main goals: > > 1) allow the receive codepath to identify the mid before receiving all > of the data for a particular SMB. > > ...and in turn... > > 2) add the ability for certain calls to receive their responses into > their into their own set of buffers. > > These two changes allow cifs to break the CIFSMaxBufSize barrier for > receives. This patchset just adds the necessary infrastructure to do > the above. > > A separate patchset will follow that will overhaul cifs_readpages to use > this infrastructure to allow for a larger rsize. > > Jeff Layton (16): > cifs: clean up checkSMB > cifs: consolidate signature generating code > cifs: trivial: remove obsolete comment > cifs: make smb_msg local to read_from_socket > cifs: check for unresponsive server every time we call kernel_recvmsg > cifs: simplify read_from_socket > cifs: turn read_from_socket into a wrapper around a vectorized > version > cifs: keep a reusable kvec array for receives > cifs: clean up check_rfc1002_header > cifs: add a third receive phase to cifs_demultiplex_thread > cifs: move mid finding into separate routine > cifs: eliminate is_multi_rsp parm to find_cifs_mid > cifs: move buffer pointers into TCP_Server_Info > cifs: find mid earlier in receive codepath > cifs: break out 3rd receive phase into separate function > cifs: add a callback function to receive the rest of the frame > > fs/cifs/cifsencrypt.c | 103 ++-------- > fs/cifs/cifsglob.h | 29 +++- > fs/cifs/cifsproto.h | 7 +- > fs/cifs/cifssmb.c | 5 +- > fs/cifs/connect.c | 519 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++--------------------- > fs/cifs/misc.c | 51 +++--- > fs/cifs/transport.c | 16 +- > 7 files changed, 391 insertions(+), 339 deletions(-) > > -- > 1.7.6 > > -- > 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 > The patchset looks good to me at the first glance. I am going to look at this more carefully and test it in a few days. -- Best regards, Pavel Shilovsky. -- 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
