On Thu, Apr 12, 2007 at 07:05:02PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote: > > Did some performance testing of the fuse_perform_write implementation. > > Result with a passthrough filesystem onto a backing tmpfs directory is that > > bulk (1MB) writes are nearly 4 times faster (256MB/s vs 71MB/s), because > > FUSE can send larger requests to userspace. Block based filesystems will > > tend to be less dramatic, but could still be significant if block allocation > > is batched, for example. > > Thanks a bunch, this is great news. Large writes are one of the most > requested features for fuse. I did have a patch that does this in > prepare_write/commit_write, but it's rather hackish, and I'm glad > there will be a better way. Oh, that's good to know it will actually be useful ;) I didn't actually instrument request sizes going down, but it that number might be increased further by increasing the max pages per fuse request. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
