Samba and Application Response Measurement (ARM 4.0)

David Collier-Brown davecb at sun.com
Mon Mar 3 22:57:39 GMT 2008


  I was mildly surprised too, until I realized they were
interested in the network-side response time, not the
filesystem-side.

  I have a (Solaris) response measurement library that 
interposes on read/write calls, but on sockets and not files.

--dave
 

simo wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-03-03 at 21:47 +0100, Sven Kubiak wrote:
> 
>>Test-of-Concept:
>>We used the current stable Samba release 3.0.28 on Ubuntu 7.10 (Kernel
>>2.6.22).
>>We added an ARM transaction to the open_file function in smbd/open.c
>>and added
>>two lines of code in the makefile.in file. You'll find patches for
>>both files
>>attached.
> 
> 
> Sven is there a specific reason why you patched the main code instead of
> writing a vfs_ARM module to intercept open calls ?
> 
> Simo.
> 

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