2.5 readpages doubles cifs vfs large file copy performance vs. 2.4

[Jeremy Allison]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2003 at 09:42:58AM -0400, David Collier-Brown -- Customer Engineering wrote:
> 
>    Observation with truss (the Solaris strace) showed Samba doing
> a read of 1 KB, then 16 KB and finally of  64KB, which was
> **pessimal** for our ufs (which is really an improved BSD ffs).

Yeah, but it's the size the client is asking for. That isn't
something we decide.

Jeremy.