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Currently the aggregate size is by default 128K (page size). From performance perspective small number of large writes is faster than large number of small writes, especially in EC volumes. But identifying the right aggregate size depends on multiple factors like the memcpy overhead, network overhead etc. On local machine, combining 128k writes to 1M writes for EC volumes yielded 30% improvement. As a part of this patch, aggregate size is just made configurable and page_size is modified accordingly. Raghavendra Gowdappa had suggested that, while aggregating writes we should get rid of memcpy of large write size, and instead add the pointer to existinf vector, will be doing it as a part of another patch. Also, in EC volumes, the vectors are merged into one vector, so even if we save memcopy in write_behind, EC would anyways do memcopy for merging vectors into one vector. Updates: #364 Change-Id: Ib67294b8577bea14dde1c84cd271012ecea99f09 Signed-off-by: Poornima G <pgurusid@redhat.com>
Gluster
Gluster is a software defined distributed storage that can scale to several petabytes. It provides interfaces for object, block and file storage.
Development
Contributions to gluster in the form of patches and new feature additions can be made by following steps outlined at Developers Guide.
Documentation
The Gluster documentation can be found at Gluster Docs.
Deployment
Quick instructions to build and install can be found in INSTALL file.
Maintainers
The list of Gluster maintainers is available in MAINTAINERS file.
License
Gluster is dual licensed under GPLV2 and LGPLV3+.
Please visit the Gluster Home Page to find out more about Gluster.