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Subject: Re: [PATCH] fuse: enable larger read buffers for readdir.
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To:     Jaco Kroon <jaco@uls.co.za>, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>,
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On 7/26/23 03:59, Jaco Kroon wrote:
> +config FUSE_READDIR_ORDER
> +	int
> +	range 0 5
> +	default 5
> +	help
> +		readdir performance varies greatly depending on the size of the read.
> +		Larger buffers results in larger reads, thus fewer reads and higher
> +		performance in return.
> +
> +		You may want to reduce this value on seriously constrained memory
> +		systems where 128KiB (assuming 4KiB pages) cache pages is not ideal.
> +
> +		This value reprents the order of the number of pages to allocate (ie,

	                   represents                                            (i.e.,

> +		the shift value).  A value of 0 is thus 1 page (4KiB) where 5 is 32
> +		pages (128KiB).

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~Randy