From: Steve Dickson <SteveD@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2.4] (retry) increase NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE on large
 page machines
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 13:35:03 -0400
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Greg Banks wrote:

>I've been out of the loop for a few weeks now so I'm getting back
>in by sending and resending a bunch of patches.
>
>This one (for 2.4 only) was sent twice but has not yet appeared in
>Marcello's BK.
>
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-nfs&m=107002386729570&w=2
>http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=108391490102531&w=2
>
>This patch makes NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE depend on PAGE_SIZE so that machines
>with large page sizes can take advantage of that feature to serve NFS
>with larger blocksizes, increasing performance and avoiding a fallback
>to synchronous traffic between machines with page sizes greater than 8K.
>Also, documents the actual constraints on NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE.
>  
>
I've had people ask about this as well.... It would be good if this made 
in (imho)....

SteveD.


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