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Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2012 19:54:12 -0500 From: Steve French <smfrench@...il.com> To: Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> Cc: Andreas Dilger <adilger@...mcloud.com>, David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org, linux-nfs@...r.kernel.org, linux-cifs@...r.kernel.org, samba-technical@...ts.samba.org, linux-ext4@...r.kernel.org, wine-devel@...ehq.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org, libc-alpha@...rceware.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/6] Extended file stat system call On Fri, Apr 27, 2012 at 7:38 PM, Dave Chinner <david@...morbit.com> wrote: > preferred minimum IO size (mp->m_readio_log/mp->m_writeio_log) This discussion about i/o sizes is very interesting. For network file system (at least for SMB2 to all known servers, and for cifs mounts to Samba, but probably for recent NFS), ideal i/o sizes are often well over a megabyte ... but how to indicate that to the application... > That's why I'd prefer specific optimal IO hints - we don't have to > overload st_blksize with lots of meanings to pass what is relatively > trivial information back to the application. > > Cheers, > > Dave. > -- > Dave Chinner Yes. -- Thanks, Steve -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ext4" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
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