CVS update: samba/source/utils

[Matthew Kirkwood]

On Sun, 16 May 1999, Andrew Tridgell wrote:

> > Sounds cool.  Could you post the kernel change, please?
>
> soon, I want to see if I can find a safe way to do it first. The
> current change is not SMP safe.

OK.  Would this be a useful kernel improvement, or just a samba-specific
tweak?

> it does give lotsa speed though. tbench on loopback goes from 29MB/sec
> to 50MB/sec on a quad xeon box. I'm seeing if I can make it work with a
> full smbtorture netbench emulation now.

Eek!  That sounds good.

You might find significant SMP gains (esp. on larger transfers) as a
result of
ftp://ftp.uk.linux.org/pub/linux/sct/performance/smp-droplock-v1.diff
BTW.

Matthew.