On Tue, Dec 04, 2012 at 09:53:11PM +0100, J. Hannken-Illjes wrote:
>
> On Dec 4, 2012, at 8:10 PM, Michael van Elst <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > [email protected] ("J. Hannken-Illjes") writes:
> >
> >> The attached diff tries to coalesce writes to the journal in MAXPHYS
> >> sized and aligned blocks.
> > [...]
> >> Comments or objections anyone?
> >
> >> + * Write data to the log.
> >> + * Try to coalesce writes and emit MAXPHYS aligned blocks.
> >
> > Looks fine, but I would prefer the code to use an arbitrarily sized
> > buffer in case we get individual per device transfer limits. Currently
> > that size would still be MAXPHYS, but then the code could query the driver
> > for a proper size.
>
> As `struct wapbl' is per-mount and I suppose this will be per-mount-static
> it will be just a small `s/MAXPHYS/get-the-optimal-length/' as soon as
> tls-maxphys comes to head.
Except that you want the writes to be preferably aligned to that length,
not just of that length.
David
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