From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755813Ab0JVKoy (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:44:54 -0400 Received: from cantor.suse.de ([195.135.220.2]:39863 "EHLO mx1.suse.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754160Ab0JVKow (ORCPT ); Fri, 22 Oct 2010 06:44:52 -0400 Message-ID: <4CC16B1E.4060709@suse.de> Date: Fri, 22 Oct 2010 16:14:46 +0530 From: Suresh Jayaraman User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.11) Gecko/20100714 SUSE/3.0.6 Thunderbird/3.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?ISO-8859-15?Q?=22J=2EA=2E_Magall=F3n=22?= Cc: Linux Kernel , linux-cifs Subject: Re: CIFS is slooow, gvfs is fast References: <20101022013544.0fdab0e0@werewolf.home> In-Reply-To: <20101022013544.0fdab0e0@werewolf.home> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org (Cc linux-cifs@vger.kernel.org) On 10/22/2010 05:05 AM, J.A. Magallón wrote: > I have a very strange behaviour with windows networking. > I have an HTPC, which I access from my Linux desktop. It runs Windows 7. > Network is GigaBit, routed by a Linksys WRT320N running latest DD-WRT. > I setup an automount path under /net/htpc with CIFS filesystem. > I can also access the drives in HTPC via gvfs from Gnome DE. > > Problem: speed is _VERY_ different. > R/W through the automount point (CIFS fs), is roughly 7-8 MB/s (ridiculous > for gigabit speeds). > R/W through Gnome/gvfs (kind of fuse) goes around 35 - 40 MB/s (400 Mbits/s), > that look much better. What is the kernel version In which you are seeing the problem? I'm not seeing this on 2.6.36-rc4. Do you have a wired interface as well? Are you sure that both are using the same network path? > I have tried with different rsize/wsize in mount, but speed is the same > (perhaps I did not get the right values...). Does the changes reflect in /proc/mounts? -- Suresh Jayaraman