Date: Tue, 22 Dec 1998 20:44:42 -0800 (PST) From: Matthew Dillon <dillon@apollo.backplane.com> To: David Greenman <dg@root.com> Cc: hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: vfs_bio / struct buf Message-ID: <199812230444.UAA10868@apollo.backplane.com>
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: The optimization is primarily for short writes (like 1 byte or a few bytes)
:so couldn't really be replaced by something that has 512 byte granularity
:without losing some performance. Granted, applications that show this behavior
:are probably broken, but that's another issue.
:
:-DG
:
:David Greenman
:Co-founder/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project
Ah. Hmmm. I see the problem... the buf's need some sort of native block
size and NFS doesn't really have a native block size.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon Engineering, HiWay Technologies, Inc. & BEST Internet
Communications & God knows what else.
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