[linux-cifs-client] Re: [PATCH 3/3] cifs: md5 cleanup - comments

[Steven French]

Jesper Juhl <juhl-lkml at dif.dk> wrote on 04/11/2005 03:16:44 PM:

>
> clean up comments and make them conform to the style used in other cifs
> files.
>
> this patch can also be fetched from:
>
http://www.linuxtux.org/~juhl/kernel_patches/fs_cifs_md5-comments.patch

Jesper,
Did you find any unused routines in md5.c (and md4.c for that matter).
There may be some that could be needed to fixup NTLMv2 support but this is
something I have not looked at for a while.

Before 2.6.12 comes out I have two remaining bugs that I want to focus on
(and perhaps finish the prototype of the experimental umount.cifs support
which some users have been asking for).   Reducing the order 3 allocs in
the cifs_demultiplex routine by using small buffers instead of the standard
16.K+ buffers (putting most non-read, non-readdir SMB responses in for the
smaller of the response buffer types) is also a priority - since with lots
of processes running on the client access networking files, and inode data
being cached aggressively by the page manager, there is a lot of memory
pressure as the number of simultaneous requests exceeds the size of the
cifs buffer memory pool.


Steve French
Senior Software Engineer
Linux Technology Center - IBM Austin
phone: 512-838-2294
email: sfrench at-sign us dot ibm dot com
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