[OpenAFS-devel] RX Performance

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Jim Rees wrote:

> We spent some time on this problem and found that increasing the mtu was the
> only thing that helped.  We didn't try to figure out why rx is slow, we just
> bypassed it.
>
> More info here:
>
> http://www.citi.umich.edu/projects/vafs/
>
> NFSv4 eliminates rpc over udp completely, and requires tcp transport.  Maybe
> afs should do the same.

AFS could split-path TCP like you split-path ATM in that report. Though,
at this point Arla has work in progress to use TCP, so it's probably
smarter unless there's a fundamental flaw to use something compatible with
that.