From: Greg Banks <gnb@melbourne.sgi.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 003 of 4] Prepare knfsd for support of	rsize/wsize
	of up to 1MB, over TCP.
Date: Tue, 08 Aug 2006 12:12:10 +1000
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On Mon, 2006-08-07 at 23:04, Chuck Lever wrote:
> I know the name NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE is historical, but to me it is
> confusing.  It isn't a block size at all, it's really a maximum
> tranfser size, in bytes, right?

NFSSVC_MAXBLKSIZE is the maximum NFS payload size, i.e. the largest
size of file data that can passed in WRITE and returned from READ.
The transfer size (as I understand the term) would be that plus the
NFS and RPC headers, i.e. 65536 bytes for UDP.  So I think the name
is mostly OK.

Greg.
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Greg Banks, R&D Software Engineer, SGI Australian Software Group.
I don't speak for SGI.


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