On Mon, Sep 26, 2016 at 9:16 AM, Elliott, Robert (Persistent Memory)
<[email protected]> wrote:
> How is an application supposed to detect the max mmap() size possible
> for a /dev/daxNN device?

The 'size' sysfs attribute.

> fio, for example, doesn't know what size to use.  Its os/os-linux.h
> does not define FIO_HAVE_CHARDEV_SIZE and it has no chardev_size
> function to determine the size of a character device.

Hmm, seems fio would do the right thing if /dev/dax responded to block
device size ioctl.  But I think I'd rather teach fio about device-dax
explicitly since the i/o engine need not worry about page-cache
management.
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