alt Hacker NewsI'm not sure if ksmbd still makes all that much sense. A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core. And the attack surface... if you control ksmbd, you immediately own the machine.
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tomega2134 • today at 7:58 PM
Even if I did have a requirement that SMB saturate a network, I would probably still not want it to be implemented in the kernel.
14u2c • today at 3:24 PM
> A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core.
Certainly not a guarantee at today's link speeds. We're increasingly leaning into RDMA and other forms of offloading for a reason.
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> A user-space daemon can saturate almost any network link using a single CPU core.
Not 200Gbps of 16kB block writes, that's for sure.
Agree with you on the rest about kernel vs userspace, just taking issue with the bit about a single CPU core.