Re: [BUG] Smbfs + preempt on 2.4.10

Urban Widmark (urban@teststation.com)
Mon, 29 Oct 2001 19:17:50 +0100 (CET)


On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, vda wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I narrowed down Samba weirdness I observe on 2.4.10 to preempt patch.
> Plain 2.4.10 works fine, 2.4.10+preempt (with latency measurement turned on)
> is sometimes oopses, and sometimes reports 'file already exists' when I
> attempt to copy a file from WinNT box to Linux. Sometimes it works ok
> (50% or so...)

Could be that the preempt patch triggers some smbfs bug. Where do I get a
copy of it?

It is of course also possible that the preempt patch is buggy, in which
case I don't really care :)

> I am very willing to help in curing this coz low latency is great.

Could you describe the problems you experience with the current code, and
how the preempt patch helps?

/Urban

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