Re: Canvassing for network filesystem write size vs page size

From: David Howells
Date: Fri Aug 06 2021 - 09:45:08 EST


Matthew Wilcox <willy@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Filesystems should not make an assumption about this ... I suspect
> the optimum page size scales with I/O bandwidth; taking PCI bandwidth
> as a reasonable proxy, it's doubled five times in twenty years.

There are a lot more factors than you make out. Local caching, content
crypto, transport crypto, cost of setting up RPC calls, compounding calls to
multiple servers.

David