From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (smtp1.linux-foundation.org [172.17.192.35]) by mail.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A73C031E1 for ; Thu, 30 May 2019 05:59:51 +0000 (UTC) Received: from outgoing.mit.edu (outgoing-auth-1.mit.edu [18.9.28.11]) by smtp1.linuxfoundation.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 7EA3D880 for ; Thu, 30 May 2019 05:59:50 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 30 May 2019 01:59:47 -0400 From: "Theodore Ts'o" To: ksummit-discuss@lists.linuxfoundation.org Message-ID: <20190530055947.GA29812@mit.edu> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Subject: [Ksummit-discuss] [TECH TOPIC] Linux kernel SMB server (CIFSD) List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , From: Sergey Senozhatsky [ Note: The following abstract was submitted via the Linsux Plumbers Conference website. Per the instructions that were posted for the Maintainer's / Kernel Summit Call for Proposals[1], the proposal should also be posted on the ksummit-discuss list, so that people can comment on the proposal, and perhaps start a discussion before the summit. [1] https://lwn.net/Articles/788378/ Please note that topic proposals for both the Kernel Summit and the Maintainer's Summit are still welcome, and the deadline has been extended to June 3rd. -- Ted ] CIFSD is a new SMB server implementation for the Linux kernel (out of tree, as of this moment), intended to be minimalistic, yet providing better performance than user-space analogues. This talk will briefly introduce CIFSD, its architecture (high level) and its main design goals: outline components, their responsibilities and communication protocols. The work is still in progress, we are in pretty early stages, so in the second part of the talk we will focus on current state of affairs and our future development plans - we are looking at possibility to merge CIFSD with the upstream Linux kernel, sometime in the future.