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    smb: fast copy · 46b5fb42
    Harald Sitter authored
    Summary:
    see https://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=291835#c57 for background
    
    - reading now happens inside a future. should be safe since we don't have
      any other threads doing anything while we wait.
    - the future feeds into a buffer from which the main thread will
      take file segments and write them to disk
    - buffer has 4 segments and synchronizes the threads via wait conditions
    - the size of a segment is determined somewhat dynamically between 64kb
      and 4mb. the larger a file is the more it benefits from larger
      read requests
    
    under perfect conditions this yields approximately mount-level copy
    performance, unfortunately those are hard to hit so on average it's usually
    less (somewhere in the range of 10 to 20% depending on the actual file
    size and server type).
    
    for many tiny files performance is about where it was before. the larger
    the files get the greater the gains from this diff though.
    
    specifically here's some samples I've taken:
    
    - for downloads from windows10
      - 1G & 4G file
        - compared to 20.04 is ~77% faster
        - within 10% of windows
      - 8G file
        - compared to 20.04 is ~79% faster
        - within 5% of windows
    - uploads to windows10
      - all sizes
        - compared to 20.04 is ~50% faster
        - now comparable performance to windows
    - for remote-to-remote file copies from windows10 to smbd 4.11.6
      - 1000 x 5K files
        - no change, dreadfully slow, likely problem in KIO internals
      - 1G file
        - compared to 20.04 is ~45% faster
        - within 8% of windows
      - 4G file
        - compared to 20.04 is ~95% faster
        - and somehow 18% faster than windows (could be a fluke)
    
    I've done transfers for 128M, 256M, 512M, 1G, 4G and partially 8G.
    Differences not mentioned are either unchanged, negligible or in line with
    documented trends.
    
    BUG: 291835
    FIXED-IN: 20.08
    
    Test Plan:
    - fallocate -l 1G file
    - copy around
    - copy kio-extras around
    
    Reviewers: ngraham, cfeck, #frameworks, #dolphin
    
    Subscribers: mmustac, meven, hallas, anthonyfieroni, asturmlechner, kde-frameworks-devel, kfm-devel
    
    Tags: #dolphin, #frameworks
    
    Differential Revision: https://phabricator.kde.org/D27504
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