[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 6/6] cifs: don't retry on blocking sends

[Steve French]

On Mon, Dec 1, 2008 at 6:35 AM, Jeff Layton <jlayton at redhat.com> wrote:
> While we're at it, my testing shows that blocking sends give better
> performance in general than non-blocking. Is there any reason to keep
> non-blocking sends in this code at all? As a mount option, it's not
> very helpful -- most users are going to have no idea when to use it.

I was planning on removing the non-blocking sends in 2.6.29, but my
testing a few weeks ago to Samba 3, especially on localhost, showed a
slight performance gain with non-blocking sends.   Until this can be
proved false, I think we need to keep them.


-- 
Thanks,

Steve