linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] fuse: make maximum read/write request size tunable

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Date:	Fri, 06 Jul 2012 13:53:46 +0800
From:	Liu Yuan <namei.unix@...il.com>
To:	Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@...achi.com>
CC:	Miklos Szeredi <miklos@...redi.hu>,
	fuse-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, yrl.pp-manager.tt@...achi.com
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 0/5] fuse: make maximum read/write request size tunable

On 07/05/2012 06:50 PM, Mitsuo Hayasaka wrote:
> One of the ways to solve this is to make them tunable.
> In this series, the new sysfs parameter max_pages_per_req is introduced.
> It limits the maximum read/write size in fuse request and it can be
> changed from 32 to 256 pages in current implementations. When the
> max_read/max_write mount option is specified, FUSE request size is set
> per mount. (The size is rounded-up to page size and limited up to
> max_pages_per_req.)

Why maxim 256 pages? If we are here, we can go further: most of object
storage system has object size of multiple to dozens of megabytes. So I
think probably 1M is too small. Our distribution storage system has 4M
per object, so I think at least maxim size could be bigger than 4M.

Thanks,
Yuan

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