I got to 20MB/sec by reconfiguring Windows 7 to disable autotuning. forcedirectio or not now has no speed effect anymore. Tested on a gigabit network.
filename: /lib/modules/2.6.38-10-server/kernel/fs/cifs/cifs.ko version: 1.71 description: VFS to access servers complying with the SNIA CIFS Specification e.g. Samba and Windows license: GPL author: Steve French <sfre...@us.ibm.com> srcversion: CF4A226E475E7B9C049C66F depends: vermagic: 2.6.38-10-server SMP mod_unload modversions parm: CIFSMaxBufSize:Network buffer size (not including header). Defau lt: 16384 Range: 8192 to 130048 (int) parm: cifs_min_rcv:Network buffers in pool. Default: 4 Range: 1 to 64 (int) parm: cifs_min_small:Small network buffers in pool. Default: 30 Range: 2 to 256 (int) parm: cifs_max_pending:Simultaneous requests to server. Default: 50 Ra nge: 2 to 256 (int) parm: echo_retries:Number of echo attempts before giving up and reconn ecting server. Default: 5. 0 means never reconnect. (ushort) -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Ubuntu Bugs, which is subscribed to Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/810606 Title: Slow cifs in 11.04 To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/cifs-utils/+bug/810606/+subscriptions -- ubuntu-bugs mailing list ubuntu-bugs@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-bugs