From: Trond Myklebust Subject: Re: wsize & PAGE_SIZE issues on IA64 clients. Date: 28 Mar 2003 00:57:43 +0100 Sender: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: nfs@lists.sourceforge.net Return-path: Received: from mons.uio.no ([129.240.130.14] ident=7411) by sc8-sf-list1.sourceforge.net with esmtp (Exim 3.31-VA-mm2 #1 (Debian)) id 18yhFs-0004SA-00 for ; Thu, 27 Mar 2003 15:57:56 -0800 To: Mark Price In-Reply-To: Errors-To: nfs-admin@lists.sourceforge.net List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Discussion of NFS under Linux development, interoperability, and testing. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: >>>>> " " == Mark Price writes: > Can someone give me rough explanation of why that logic is > used? ie. Why the page is written synchronously if its smaller > than the page size? and Why even when its written synchronously > the wsize wasn't used, but the remote filesystems block size > was used? 1) Because in order to write asynchronously you would have to have more than 1 outstanding request per page. The locking models all assume only 1 request / page. 2) 'cos the servers get upset if we deliberately allow you to do things that violate the protocol. Cheers, Trond ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: The Definitive IT and Networking Event. Be There! NetWorld+Interop Las Vegas 2003 -- Register today! http://ads.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/redirect.pl?keyn0001en _______________________________________________ NFS maillist - NFS@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/nfs