On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:51 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > On Jan 31, 2022, at 4:06 PM, David Howells <dhowells@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > > I've been working on a library (in fs/netfs/) to provide network filesystem > > support services, with help particularly from Jeff Layton. The idea is to > > move the common features of the VM interface, including request splitting, > > operation retrying, local caching, content encryption, bounce buffering and > > compression into one place so that various filesystems can share it. > > IIUC this suite of functions is beneficial mainly to clients, > is that correct? I'd like to be clear about that, this is not > an objection to the topic. > > I'm interested in discussing how folios might work for the > NFS _server_, perhaps as a separate or adjunct conversation. That is an interesting point. Would like to also discuss whether it could help ksmbd, and would like to continue discussion of netfs improvements - especially am interested in how we can improve throttling when network (or server) is congested (or as network adapters are added/removed and additional bandwidth is available). -- Thanks, Steve
