Re: [PATCH -v2 4/6] fuse: add a sysfs parameter to control the maximum request size

[Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu>]

Mitsuo Hayasaka <mitsuo.hayasaka.hu@hitachi.com> writes:

> Add a max_pages_per_req sysfs paramater to limit the maximum
> read/write request size. It can be changed to arbitrary number
> between 32 and the nr_pages equivalent to pipe_max_size, and the
> 32 pages are set by default.
>
> The sysfs parameter control is required, as follows.
>
> * The libfuse should change the current MIN_BUFSIZE limitation
>   according to the current maximum request size in FUSE. If not,
>   the libfuse must always set MIN_BUFSIZE to the maximum request
>   limit (= [nr_pages (equivalent to pipe_max_size) * 4KB + 0x1000]),
>   which leads to waste of memory.

I don't see the purpose of this sysfs parameter.  Userspace can
calculate the needed buffer size from the max_read/max_write parameters,
can't it?

>
> * It is easy to find and set the paramter to the optimized value
>   in order to improve the read/write throughput, since the
>   maximum request limit does not always provides the highest
>   throughput.

So basically this is a global max_read/max_write limit?  For that a
better solution would be to add it to /etc/fuse.conf.

But I have doubts about whether this is useful.

Thanks,
Miklos