On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:22:03AM +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote: > I think you are right. The topic of cifs compounding is only really > interesting to cifs folks and not many others. While other > filesystems such as NFSv4 has compounding too, the way compounding > works in cifs is different enough that there is little meaningful > overlap between the two. I'm trying to remember what people have found to be the obstacles to more aggressive use of compounds in NFS. (Things like opening a file and doing IO to it in one compound.) Might it be more practical with some VFS changes? Are there some shared CIFS/NFS issues there? Anyway, the hallway track is fine.... --b.
