Re: where to get the patches for samba over quic support

[Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>]

On Tue, Aug 22, 2023 at 05:02:26PM -0500, Steven French wrote:
>I was very interested in this as well and there seems to be a logical 
>use case for SMB3.1.1 mounts from the kernel client (cifs.ko) since 
>multiple servers already support QUIC for SMB3.1.1 mounts (e.g. 
>Windows and apparently also an embedded server that demoed at Storage 
>Developer Conference last year).  Key question remains how much of the 
>code can stay in userspace (so only the key socket read/write code 
>must be in kernel, not necessarily the connection setup).   There are 
>also some interesting points that the Microsoft QUIC (open source 
>project in github) project guys mentioned including that for testing 
>you can often do "unencrypted QUIC" as a first step (which also has 
>performance benefits over TCP)
>
>We can discuss more details if you want, but Wedson had some great 
>ideas about doing some of this in Rust (and looks there are already 3 
>work in progress user space opensource QUIC implementations in Rust - 
>so some of the code could be reused)
>
>
>On 8/21/23 09:55, Xin Long wrote:
>>Hi, Samba Team,
>>
>>I'm currently working on QUIC implementation in Linux Kernel, and thinking
>>of applying it to fs/smb for SMB over QUIC in kernel. For interoperability
>>testing, I'm looking for an existing userspace implementation for SMB over
>>QUIC in Linux.
>>
>>I heard there are already some internal patches in samba for SMB over QUIC
>>support, anyone knows where I can get it for this testing?

I just did some research, and this engine (in C) appears to be easiest
to use for Samba.

https://github.com/litespeedtech/lsquic/blob/master/docs/tutorial.rst

The tutorial shows an example being used with libevent, we could
adapt this to libtevent.