cifs: add mount parameter tcpnodelay
Although corking and uncorking the socket (which cifs.ko already
does) should usually have the desired benefit, using the new
tcpnodelay mount option causes tcp_sock_set_nodelay() to be set
on the socket which may be useful in order to ensure that we don't
ever have cases where the network stack is waiting on sending an
SMB request until multiple SMB requests have been added to the
send queue (since this could lead to long latencies).
To enable it simply append "tcpnodelay" it to the mount options
Reviewed-by: Paulo Alcantara (SUSE) <pc@cjr.nz>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>
diff --git a/fs/cifs/fs_context.h b/fs/cifs/fs_context.h
index 29601a4..b2d22cf 100644
--- a/fs/cifs/fs_context.h
+++ b/fs/cifs/fs_context.h
@@ -98,6 +98,7 @@ enum cifs_param {
Opt_nosharesock,
Opt_persistent,
Opt_resilient,
+ Opt_tcp_nodelay,
Opt_domainauto,
Opt_rdma,
Opt_modesid,