SMB/CIFS compounding support
SMB/CIFS compounding support
[Kernel] Posted May 22, 2018 15:08 UTC (Tue) by jake
In a filesystem-track session at the 2018 Linux Storage, Filesystem, and Memory-Management Summit (LSFMM), Ronnie Sahlberg talked about some changes he has made to add support for compounding to the SMB/CIFS implementation in Linux. Compounding is a way to combine multiple operations into a single request that can help reduce network round-trips.