smb: client: introduce multichannel async work during mount

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Mounts can experience large delays when servers advertise interfaces
that are unreachable from the client.

To fix this, decouple channel addition from the synchronous mount path
by introducing struct mchan_mount and running channel setup as
background work.

Reviewed-by: Shyam Prasad N <sprasad@microsoft.com>
Signed-off-by: Henrique Carvalho <henrique.carvalho@suse.com>
Signed-off-by: Steve French <stfrench@microsoft.com>

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Henrique Carvalho 2026-01-19 13:42:12 -03:00 • committed by Steve French

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fs/smb/client/cifsglob.h

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fs/smb/client/connect.c

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