Hi Steve, Below is a patch for a new channel allocation strategy that we've been discussing for some time now. It uses the least loaded channel to send requests as compared to the simple round robin. This will help especially in cases where the server is not consuming requests at the same rate across the channels. I've put the changes behind a config option that has a default value of true. This way, we have an option to switch to the current default of round robin when needed. Please review. https://github.com/sprasad-microsoft/smb3-kernel-client/commit/28b96fd89f7d746fc2b6c68682527214a55463f9.patch -- Regards, Shyam