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From: Scott Lovenberg <scott.lovenberg-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] cifs: remove the sockopt= mount option
Date: Thu, 21 Feb 2013 11:29:28 -0500
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On 2/21/2013 11:00 AM, Steve French wrote:
> We should do some quick performance runs to verify this - but with
> corking and uncorking the socket explicitly presumably TCP_NODELAY
> should not be needed.
I got that info from the old Samba HOWTO and Reference Guide, but it's 
very, very old info.  I'm guessing that when matched with an older 
kernel and possibly older TCP/IP congestion algorithm, it might have 
made more of a difference than it does now.