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 ? -- 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>