(Re-sending since typing the right email address is hard) Proposal: Compounding support for cifs.ko In CIFS.KO we are currently adding compounding support for SMB2/3. As SMB* is a very chatty protocol which likes to do open/query/close a LOT compounding support to wrap all three operations inside a single round trip can have a significant performance boost to meta data intensive workloads. In this talk I will talk about the challenges I faced and what previous design decisions in cifs.ko that made this very hard and how I refactored the design. I will also talk about the current status of these patches as well as give a live demonstration of compounding in action. regards Ronnie Sahlberg, RedHat
