Re: [Lustre-discuss] RPC limitation

2010-03-10 Thread Andreas Dilger
On 2010-03-09, at 17:40, Jeffrey Bennett wrote: Is there any way to force an RPC page size of 256kb and pack several 4kb random operations into a 256k page so the final throughput can increase? As Oleg mentioned, Lustre will in fact pack up to 256 random 4kB writes into a single RPC/RDMA

Re: [Lustre-discuss] RPC limitation

2010-03-09 Thread Jeffrey Bennett
Andreas and Oleg, Sorry to bother you again. Is there any way to force an RPC page size of 256kb and pack several 4kb random operations into a 256k page so the final throughput can increase? Thanks Jeffrey A. Bennett HPC Systems Engineer San Diego Supercomputer Center

Re: [Lustre-discuss] RPC limitation

2010-03-09 Thread Oleg Drokin
Hello! This only works if all the requests are for the same file, then it is done for you automatically (assuming that these are write requests and there is not sync in between. It's impossible to do for reads for obvious reason that read is a synchronous operation and by the time we