[Pvfs2-developers] Re: noncontig-test

[Pete Wyckoff]

atchley at myri.com wrote on Tue, 07 Aug 2007 15:21 -0400:
> 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.

Okay, good reasoning.  We'll let Sam tell us what he thinks.  He did
the small io work.  I can't think of a reason why any device could
not support a minimum of 8k, like you say, if that would make more
sense for the small io implementation.

		-- Pete