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Date:      Tue, 07 Jul 2009 21:25:33 +0300
From:      Alexander Motin <mav@FreeBSD.org>
To:        Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com>
Cc:        freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: DFLTPHYS vs MAXPHYS
Message-ID:  <4A53931D.6040307@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <200907071636.n67GagxN087660@apollo.backplane.com>
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Matthew Dillon wrote:
>    That isn't correct.  Locality of reference for adjacent data is very
>    important even if the filesystem only needs a small amount of data.

All I wanted to say, is that it is FS privilege to decide how much data 
it needs. But when it really needs a lot of data, they should be better 
transferred with smaller number of bigger transactions, without strict 
MAXPHYS limitation.

-- 
Alexander Motin



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