From: Dave Chinner <david@fromorbit.com>
To: Michael Weissenbacher <mw@dermichi.com>
Cc: xfs@oss.sgi.com
Subject: Re: logbufs default value
Date: Tue, 31 May 2011 10:11:27 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110531001127.GF561@dastard> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4DE0A80C.7060806@dermichi.com>
On Sat, May 28, 2011 at 09:45:16AM +0200, Michael Weissenbacher wrote:
> Hi List!
> From linux-2.6.39/Documentation/filesystems/xfs.txt:
> logbufs=value
> Set the number of in-memory log buffers. Valid numbers range
> from 2-8 inclusive.
> The default value is 8 buffers for filesystems with a
> blocksize of 64KiB, 4 buffers for filesystems with a blocksize
> of 32KiB, 3 buffers for filesystems with a blocksize of 16KiB
> and 2 buffers for all other configurations. Increasing the
> number of buffers may increase performance on some workloads
> at the cost of the memory used for the additional log buffers
> and their associated control structures.
>
> Is this still valid? I thought that newer kernels would always use 8 as
> default?
No, it's not. Patches to fix the documentation are welcome.
Cheers,
Dave.
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