[OpenAFS-devel] RX Performance

[Derrick J Brashear]

On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, chas williams wrote:

> nfs (over udp) doesnt really do anything fancy and see fairly good
> performance.  better than afs typically (for uncached files).  rx
> (after its rewrite) has assorted tcp features.  i dont believe any
> of these features are fundamentally broken.  they are just hampered
> by the jumbogram mechanism.  it seems like there would be more gain from
> making the smallish number of changes to rx jumbograms instead of adding
> (and debugging) a tcp implementation.

It won't solve any NAT issues that TCP with kept-open connections would.
Still, speaking for myself I at least would like to see the jumbogram
fixes.