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cifs: lower default wsize when unix extensions are not used
authorJeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:08:51 +0000 (16:08 -0500)
committerGreg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
Thu, 26 Jan 2012 00:13:57 +0000 (16:13 -0800)
commit ce91acb3acae26f4163c5a6f1f695d1a1e8d9009 upstream.

We've had some reports of servers (namely, the Solaris in-kernel CIFS
server) that don't deal properly with writes that are "too large" even
though they set CAP_LARGE_WRITE_ANDX. Change the default to better
mirror what windows clients do.

Cc: Pavel Shilovsky <piastry@etersoft.ru>
Reported-by: Nick Davis <phireph0x@yahoo.com>
Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jlayton@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <smfrench@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
fs/cifs/connect.c

index f3670cf72587beee30ca9f9bf8152e169d6bd085..63e4be46eec4f04353ec9802062717656a09145f 100644 (file)
@@ -2914,18 +2914,33 @@ void cifs_setup_cifs_sb(struct smb_vol *pvolume_info,
 #define CIFS_DEFAULT_IOSIZE (1024 * 1024)
 
 /*
- * Windows only supports a max of 60k reads. Default to that when posix
- * extensions aren't in force.
+ * Windows only supports a max of 60kb reads and 65535 byte writes. Default to
+ * those values when posix extensions aren't in force. In actuality here, we
+ * use 65536 to allow for a write that is a multiple of 4k. Most servers seem
+ * to be ok with the extra byte even though Windows doesn't send writes that
+ * are that large.
+ *
+ * Citation:
+ *
+ * http://blogs.msdn.com/b/openspecification/archive/2009/04/10/smb-maximum-transmit-buffer-size-and-performance-tuning.aspx
  */
 #define CIFS_DEFAULT_NON_POSIX_RSIZE (60 * 1024)
+#define CIFS_DEFAULT_NON_POSIX_WSIZE (65536)
 
 static unsigned int
 cifs_negotiate_wsize(struct cifs_tcon *tcon, struct smb_vol *pvolume_info)
 {
        __u64 unix_cap = le64_to_cpu(tcon->fsUnixInfo.Capability);
        struct TCP_Server_Info *server = tcon->ses->server;
-       unsigned int wsize = pvolume_info->wsize ? pvolume_info->wsize :
-                               CIFS_DEFAULT_IOSIZE;
+       unsigned int wsize;
+
+       /* start with specified wsize, or default */
+       if (pvolume_info->wsize)
+               wsize = pvolume_info->wsize;
+       else if (tcon->unix_ext && (unix_cap & CIFS_UNIX_LARGE_WRITE_CAP))
+               wsize = CIFS_DEFAULT_IOSIZE;
+       else
+               wsize = CIFS_DEFAULT_NON_POSIX_WSIZE;
 
        /* can server support 24-bit write sizes? (via UNIX extensions) */
        if (!tcon->unix_ext || !(unix_cap & CIFS_UNIX_LARGE_WRITE_CAP))