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). -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>