Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] Netfs support library

[Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Feb 1, 2022 at 10:51 PM Chuck Lever III <chuck.lever@oracle.com> wrote:
>
> > On Jan 31, 2022, at 4:06 PM, David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> > I've been working on a library (in fs/netfs/) to provide network filesystem
> > support services, with help particularly from Jeff Layton.  The idea is to
> > move the common features of the VM interface, including request splitting,
> > operation retrying, local caching, content encryption, bounce buffering and
> > compression into one place so that various filesystems can share it.
>
> IIUC this suite of functions is beneficial mainly to clients,
> is that correct? I'd like to be clear about that, this is not
> an objection to the topic.
>
> I'm interested in discussing how folios might work for the
> NFS _server_, perhaps as a separate or adjunct conversation.

That is an interesting point.   Would like to also discuss whether it
could help ksmbd,
and would like to continue discussion of netfs improvements - especially am
interested in how we can improve throttling when network (or server)
is congested
(or as network adapters are added/removed and additional bandwidth is
available).


-- 
Thanks,

Steve