[linux-cifs-client] CIFS slow on gigabit, doesn't support sockopt=TCP_NODELAY ?

[Volker Lendecke]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 09:50:20AM -0400, Jeff Layton wrote:
> Yeah. The sockopt= option is completely ignored. I proposed a patch
> to remove it not too long ago...
> 
> I'm unclear...so you're saying here that turning on TCP_NODELAY on the
> server it helps throughput when using the Linux CIFS client?
> 
> It seems to be that there are probably bottlenecks you'll hit sooner
> before Nagle's algorithm becomes an issue (lack of parallelism in
> writes for one thing), but it may be worth experimenting with that flag
> if you've seen a measurable throughput increase.

While there... Any updates on the parallel reads and writes
we discussed a couple of months ago?

Volker
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