From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Suresh Jayaraman Subject: Re: Backported cifs module Date: Wed, 08 Jun 2011 19:07:34 +0530 Message-ID: <4DEF7B1E.7060008@suse.de> References: <201106072346.02460.johnmiller@email.it> <20110608085143.729e9c92@tlielax.poochiereds.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: Jeff Layton , smfrench-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org, linux-cifs-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: JM Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20110608085143.729e9c92-9yPaYZwiELC+kQycOl6kW4xkIHaj4LzF@public.gmane.org> Sender: linux-cifs-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org List-ID: On 06/08/2011 06:21 PM, Jeff Layton wrote: > On Tue, 7 Jun 2011 23:46:02 +0200 > JM wrote: > >> Hi, >> sorry to disturb you directly, Steve French told me that you have >> backported the cifs module to older kernels. >> According to him, the latest release should fix some reading >> slowness that I have experienced. >> I am available if you need some testers too. >> >> JM >> >> PS: I am using >> opensuse with their 2.6.37.6 kernel. Have you create a bug report against openSUSE-11.4 (I guess)? If yes, could please add me in Cc? If not, can you create a bug report and include me in Cc, I'll take a look at it. Thanks, > (cc'ing Steve and linux-cifs ml...) > > The only commit I know of that would affect read performance is > 2b6c26a0. A quick look at 2.6.37.y tree shows that it doesn't have that > patch. > -- Suresh Jayaraman