Submission + - SPAM: Performance comparison between Linux in-kernel SMB server and Samba.
ksmbd claims performance improvements on a wide range of benchmarks: the graphs on this page show a doubling of performance on some tests.
Clearly, those number are impressive, but at the same time recent improvements in Samba's IO performance put this into perspective: by leveraging the new "io_uring" Linux API Samba is able to provide roughly 10x the throughput compared to ksmbd.
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