On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 4:03 PM, Emmanuel Florac <[email protected]> wrote: > Le Thu, 27 Jan 2011 13:54:10 -0500 vous écriviez: > >> cc'ing [email protected] which is the new mailing list... > > Damn, that's why I wasn't receiving messages from the list for a few > months :) > >> Most likely you're seeing the result of a lack of parallelism in the >> Linux kernel cifs client. It does not do async writes (yet), which >> really hinders throughput. >> >> I'm hoping to get to work on that in the next few months unless >> someone else beats me to it... > > Thank you. In the meanwhile I'll probably stick to NFS :) >
With NFSv4 you get similar caching to cifs, but there are cases where our testing shows CIFS faster - but not for single process, single file i/o. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-cifs" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
