Re: [LSF/MM/BPF TOPIC] breaking the 512 KiB IO boundary on x86_64

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On Thu, Mar 20, 2025 at 04:41:11AM +0100, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> We've been constrained to a max single 512 KiB IO for a while now on x86_64.
> This is due to the number of DMA segments and the segment size. With LBS the
> segments can be much bigger without using huge pages, and so on a 64 KiB
> block size filesystem you can now see 2 MiB IOs when using buffered IO.

Actually up to 8 MiB I/O with 64k filesystem block size with buffered I/O as we
can describe up to 128 segments at 64k size.

Daniel




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