Re: Where in the server code is fsinfo rtpref calculated?

[James Vanns <james.vanns@framestore.com>]

> There's no way to specify that as an export option.  You can
> configure
> it server-wide using /proc/fs/nfsd/max_block_size.

Ah ha! Bingo. There it is. I can see it on our SL6 (2.6.32)
servers but not on older RHEL5 (2.6.18) servers so I guess
at some point this was hardcoded to 32k?

> > and so I need to
> > find where this negotiated value between server->client actually
> > comes
> > from. How does the server reach the preferred block size for a
> > given
> > export?
> 
> fs/nfsd/nfssvc.c:nfsd_get_default_maxblksize() is probably a good
> starting point.  Its caller, nfsd_create_serv(), calls
> svc_create_pooled() with the result that's calculated.

Thanks. I shall look there.

Jim

> For fsinfo see fs/nfsd/nfs3proc.c:nfsd3_proc_fsinfo, which uses
> svc_max_payload().
> 
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Jim Vanns
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