Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932295AbVIYVWU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:22:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932299AbVIYVWU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:22:20 -0400 Received: from ms-smtp-05.texas.rr.com ([24.93.47.44]:28922 "EHLO ms-smtp-05-eri0.texas.rr.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932295AbVIYVWU (ORCPT ); Sun, 25 Sep 2005 17:22:20 -0400 Message-ID: <433713CD.5050607@austin.rr.com> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 16:17:01 -0500 From: Steve French User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0 (Windows/20041206) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: linux-cifs-client@lists.samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: cifs writepages patch Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 931 Lines: 23 I have been looking at and testing Shaggy's cifs writepages patches, and they look promising. From my fastest test client to a laptop running Windows XP as a test server (unfortunately this means running against a relatively slow disk, but the file size should fit in cache on the server) here are some initial results (at least three runs at each size). Doing large file copy (dd if=/dev/zero bs=16K count=4K of =/mnt/testfile) of 64Mbytes Over 100Mbit Ethernet w/o the patch (writes will go 4K): 6.1 MB/sec w/patch and wsize 16K (default) 8.8MB/sec w/patch and wsize reduced to 4K 6.3MB/sec w/patch and wsize 8K 8.5 MB/sec w/patch and wsize increased to 32K 9.8 MB/sec - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/