Re: [Lsf-pc] [LSF/MM TOPIC] async buffered diskio read for userspace apps

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On Fri, Jan 23, 2015 at 07:17:05PM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> On 01/23/2015 04:15 PM, Steve French wrote:
> >On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 10:20 AM, Milosz Tanski <milosz@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 11:10 AM, Volker Lendecke
> >><Volker.Lendecke@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >>>On Mon, Jan 19, 2015 at 08:31:27AM -0700, Jens Axboe wrote:
> >>>>I didn't look at your code yet, but I'm assuming it's a self
> >>>>contained IO engine. So we should be able to make that work, by only
> >>>>linking the engine itself against libsmbclient. But sheesh, what a
> >>>>pain in the butt, why can't we just all be friends.
> >>>
> >>>The published libsmbclient API misses the async features
> >>>that are needed here. Milosz needs to go lower-level.
> >>>
> >>>Volker
> >>
> >>Volker, the sync code path works; in fact I pushed some minor
> >>corrections to my branch this morning. And for now using FIO I can
> >>generate multiple clients (threads / processes).
> >>
> >>I started working on the async features (SMB2 async read/write) for
> >>client library the samba repo. There's a patch there for the first
> >>step of it it there; see the other email I sent to you and Jeremy. I
> >>was going to make sure it licensed under whatever it needs to get into
> >>the samba repo... and since this is done on my own time I personally
> >>don't care what license it's under provided it's not a PITA.
> >
> >Why not do the async read/write via the kernel client if the license
> >is an issue?  It already has async SMB2/SMB3 operations
> >(with a synchronous send/receive-like wrapper).
> 
> The license issue has been solved. Fio is cross platform, so would
> be preferable to have this work through libsmbclient, if at all
> possible.

How did the license issue get solved ? Did I miss some email
on that ?
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