[CIFS] Add support for posix open during lookup
authorSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Thu, 9 Apr 2009 01:14:32 +0000 (01:14 +0000)
committerSteve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
Fri, 17 Apr 2009 01:26:49 +0000 (01:26 +0000)
commita6ce4932fbdbcd8f8e8c6df76812014351c32892
tree4ffe9ea3379cb3227924491c93960108cf762b96
parentd9fb5c091b419e0495c50c1cce9e4cf9f7105072
[CIFS] Add support for posix open during lookup

This patch by utilizing lookup intents, and thus removing a network
roundtrip in the open path, improves performance dramatically on
open (30% or more) to Samba and other servers which support the
cifs posix extensions

Signed-off-by: Shirish Pargaonkar <shirishp@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <sfrench@us.ibm.com>
fs/cifs/cifsglob.h
fs/cifs/dir.c
fs/cifs/file.c