From: "Linda A. Walsh" <lkml@tlinx.org>
To: Linux-Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size?
Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2014 11:47:06 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <53CC0EAA.2010202@tlinx.org> (raw)
I have a hard disk with a "512e" sector size: emulated 512, really 4096.
The disk returns a 512-byte size to drivers for compatibility.
I can partition the disk and setup the allocation size
to 4096, but I'd like to tell the kernel to use a
virtual-size of 4096 for the sector as an additional
performance 'hint', so nothing will even try to use
smaller i/o's than that.
However, this doesn't seem to work ("# prompt" does mean root):
/sys/block/sdd/queue# echo 4096 >minimum_io_size
bash: minimum_io_size: Permission denied
I realize this is probably implemented as a R-O value,
but it there a reason it needs to be if an admin
wants to increase it to a multiple of an emulated
I/O size so as to have it represent the physical
sector size?
I.e. if the "/sys" code was patched to allow modification
of this variable, would it work for the purpose
I am describing (i.e. ignoring emulated 512 size and
using the real 4096 size as a minimum (I wouldn't
intend or want this to affect the sector# addressing,
which would still be done using 512B sector blocks.
Thanks!
next reply other threads:[~2014-07-20 19:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-20 18:47 Linda A. Walsh [this message]
2014-07-20 22:28 ` Howto tell kernel to use 4096 as granularity & minimum size? Dave Chinner
2014-07-21 20:45 ` Linda Walsh
2014-07-23 13:17 ` One Thousand Gnomes
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