Re: batched write

Akshat Aranya
2006-06-19T17:52:25Z

On 6/19/06, Miklos Szeredi <miklos@szeredi.hu> wrote:
> > I would think that batched write is pretty essential then to FUSE
> > performance.
>
> Well, yes essential if the this is the bottleneck in write throughput,
> which is most often not the case, but sometimes it is.
>

I can vouch for this. I did some experiments with an example FUSE
filesystem that discards the data in userspace. Exporting such a
filesystem over NFS gives us 80 MB/s writes when FUSE is modified to
write with 32K block sizes. With the standard FUSE (4K writes), we
get closer to 50 MB/s.

> Miklos

-Akshat
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