netdev - Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Send RPC-on-TCP with one sock

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Date: Wed, 26 Jul 2023 13:13:14 +0100
From: David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>
To: Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org>
Cc: dhowells@...hat.com, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org,
    netdev@...r.kernel.org, Chuck Lever <chuck.lever@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Send RPC-on-TCP with one sock_sendmsg() call

Chuck Lever <cel@...nel.org> wrote:

> After some discussion with David Howells at LSF/MM 2023, we arrived
> at a plan to use a single sock_sendmsg() call for transmitting an
> RPC message on socket-based transports. This is an initial part of
> the transition to support handling folios with file content, but it
> has scalability benefits as well.
> 
> Initial performance benchmark results show 5-10% throughput gains
> with a fast link layer and a tmpfs export. I've added some other
> ideas to this series for further discussion -- these have also shown
> performance benefits in my testing.

I like it :-)

David