On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:25 PM, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, Apr 7, 2016 at 1:48 PM, Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> While sending the blocking directIO in fuse, the write request is broken >> into sub-requests, each of default size 128k and all the requests are sent >> in non-blocking background mode if async_dio mode is supported by libfuse. >> The process which issue the write wait for the completion of all the >> sub-requests. Sending multiple requests parallely gives a chance to perform >> parallel writes in the user space fuse implementation if it is >> multi-threaded and hence improves the performance. >> >> When there is a size extending aio dio write, we switch to >> blocking mode so that we can properly update the size of the file after >> completion of the writes. However, in this situation all the sub-requests >> are sent in serialized manner where the next request is sent only after >> receiving the reply of the current request. Hence the multi-threaded user >> space implementation is not utilized properly. >> >> This patch changes the size extending aio dio behavior to exactly follow >> blocking dio. For multi threaded fuse implementation having 10 threads and >> using buffer size of 64MB to perform async directIO, we are getting double >> the speed. >> >> Signed-off-by: Ashish Sangwan <ashishsangwan2@xxxxxxxxx> > > Thanks for you patience. Pushed to > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mszeredi/fuse.git for-next > > I simplified the logic, please verify that I didn't mess something up. > Hi, I would like to test fuse-next on Ubuntu/precise aka 12.04-LTS AMD64. Do I need a modern version of libfuse? Libfuse v2.8.6 is installed here. Thanks. Regards, - Sedat - [1] http://packages.ubuntu.com/search?keywords=libfuse -- 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
