[Pvfs2-developers] Re: noncontig-test

[Scott Atchley]

On Aug 7, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Pete Wyckoff wrote:

>> The code should check that bmi_max_unexp_payload > small_io_size
>> before returning.
>>
>> I will also increase the unex size in bmi_mx to 8 KB to avoid having
>> to modify PVFS2.
>
> No, do it right in the sys-io code.  You can up the BMI_MX limit too
> if you think that makes sense, but that's a separate patch to this
> bug fix you've found.  We have a couple new BMI transports here or
> on the way that don't want to have to rediscover this.  I certainly
> appreciate that you found this!
>
> 		-- Pete

Pete,

I assumed that small_io_size is fixed in PVFS2 and was greater than 4  
KB, which why I volunteered to change bmi_mx. I chose 4 KB for bmi_mx  
simply because that was the value I used in Lustre (kernel page  
size). I am not wedded to 4 KB.

Scott