Re: [RFC/PATCH] - revert generic_fillattr stat->blksize to PAGE_CACHE_SIZE

[Eric Sandeen <sandeen@redhat.com>]

Dave Kleikamp wrote:
ooks good.  Since cifs is affected by this patch, I propose that cifs
> explicitly set stat->blksize:
> 
> CIFS: Explicitly set stat->blksize
> 
> CIFS may perform I/O over the network in larger chunks than the page size,
> so it should explicitly set stat->blksize to ensure optimal I/O bandwidth
> 
> Signed-off-by: Dave Kleikamp <shaggy@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
> 
> diff -Nurp linux.orig/fs/cifs/inode.c linux/fs/cifs/inode.c
> --- linux.orig/fs/cifs/inode.c	2006-11-03 13:44:04.000000000 -0600
> +++ linux/fs/cifs/inode.c	2006-11-06 16:11:21.000000000 -0600
> @@ -1089,8 +1089,10 @@ int cifs_getattr(struct vfsmount *mnt, s
>  	struct kstat *stat)
>  {
>  	int err = cifs_revalidate(dentry);
> -	if (!err)
> +	if (!err) {
>  		generic_fillattr(dentry->d_inode, stat);
> +		stat->blksize = CIFS_MAX_MSGSIZE;
> +	}
>  	return err;
>  }

Yep, I agree that this should go in too.  Other filesystems probably
need to recover from the crash diet as well :)

Thanks,
-Eric