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From: bfields@fieldses.org (J. Bruce Fields)
To: ronnie sahlberg <ronniesahlberg@gmail.com>
Cc: Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@oracle.com>,
	Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>,
	lsf-pc@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-fsdevel <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [LSF/MM TOPIC] Compounding support in CIFS.KO
Date: Wed, 31 Jan 2018 21:40:05 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180201024005.GE3814@fieldses.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAN05THS3tGUY=ncrAoB+9yt=rPQJy4Zrb_1FvA=fK3q-pwNMdg@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 08:22:03AM +1000, ronnie sahlberg wrote:
> I think you are right.  The topic of cifs compounding is only really
> interesting to cifs folks and not many others.  While other
> filesystems such as NFSv4 has compounding too, the way compounding
> works in cifs is different enough that there is little meaningful
> overlap between the two.

I'm trying to remember what people have found to be the obstacles to
more aggressive use of compounds in NFS.  (Things like opening a file
and doing IO to it in one compound.)  Might it be more practical with
some VFS changes?  Are there some shared CIFS/NFS issues there?

Anyway, the hallway track is fine....

--b.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-02-01  2:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-01-31 20:23 [LSF/MM TOPIC] Compounding support in CIFS.KO ronnie sahlberg
2018-01-31 22:03 ` Matthew Wilcox
2018-01-31 22:13   ` Chuck Lever
2018-01-31 22:22     ` ronnie sahlberg
2018-02-01  2:40       ` J. Bruce Fields [this message]
2018-02-01  4:31         ` Steve French

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