[linux-cifs-client] Re: question about cifs performance (and asynchronous read)

[Paul Ionescu]

On Sun, 03 Apr 2005 10:42:02 +1000, James Roper wrote:

> I should have posted this patch to the list back in October, I received a
> stern talking to from abartlett last night about how code should always be
> posted to mailing lists as soon as you've done it so that even if you're
> not sure that it's ready to be merged, someone else might pick it up to
> fix it up and merge it :)
> 
> Anyway, this patch implements asynchronous reads, and was created against
> the linux-2.5cifs bitkeeper source back in October 2004., so I don't think
> it will patch against the latest bitkeeper source  When I find the time,
> I'll get it working, unless someone updates it first.
> 
> James# User:	jazzy
> # Host:	jazztower.(none)
> # Root:	/usr/src/linux-2.5cifs
> 
> # Patch vers:	1.3
> # Patch type:	REGULAR
> 
> == ChangeSet ==
> torvalds at athlon.transmeta.com|ChangeSet|20020205173056|16047|c1d11a41ed024864
> torvalds at ppc970.osdl.org|ChangeSet|20040915004007|09309 D 1.1902 04/10/11
> 15:26:10+10:00 jazzy at jazztower.(none) +6 -0 B
> torvalds at athlon.transmeta.com|ChangeSet|20020205173056|16047|c1d11a41ed024864
> C
> c Made cifs_readpages send requests asynchronously. K 8380
> P ChangeSet
> ------------------------------------------------

Hi James,

Thanks for the patch, but unfortunately I don't have any BK experience.
Can you please send me a diff patch if it's possible, and the source
version of the kernel ? 
If not, I'll have a look at BK.

Thanks,
Paul