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| author | Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> | 2017-11-20 17:18:44 +0100 |
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| committer | Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org> | 2017-11-21 15:45:20 +0100 |
| commit | 8212c34ae409f64615a53f9665134a3e7a04312d (patch) | |
| tree | f5202d08c4c6a77df1526088f6a7b13f596bd011 /docs-xml | |
| parent | c1b4a74f272977ebdc735c040e976853c7ca800f (diff) | |
| download | samba-8212c34ae409f64615a53f9665134a3e7a04312d.tar.gz | |
docs: Fix the "aio r/w size" smb.conf entries
Signed-off-by: Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Reviewed-by: Jeremy Allison <jra@samba.org>
Autobuild-User(master): Volker Lendecke <vl@samba.org>
Autobuild-Date(master): Tue Nov 21 15:45:20 CET 2017 on sn-devel-144
Diffstat (limited to 'docs-xml')
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aioreadsize.xml | 15 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aiowritesize.xml | 18 |
2 files changed, 16 insertions, 17 deletions
diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aioreadsize.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aioreadsize.xml index 0c9cc529ed8..c6028b8f9ac 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aioreadsize.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aioreadsize.xml @@ -3,20 +3,17 @@ type="bytes" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> - <para>If Samba has been built with asynchronous I/O support and this - integer parameter is set to non-zero value, - Samba will read from file asynchronously when size of request is bigger + <para>If this integer parameter is set to a non-zero value, + Samba will read from files asynchronously when the request size is bigger than this value. Note that it happens only for non-chained and non-chaining reads and when not using write cache.</para> - - <para>Current implementation of asynchronous I/O in Samba 3.0 does support - only up to 10 outstanding asynchronous requests, read and write combined.</para> - + <para>The only reasonable values for this parameter are 0 (no async I/O) and + 1 (always do async I/O).</para> <related>write cache size</related> <related>aio write size</related> </description> <value type="default">0</value> -<value type="example">16384<comment> Use asynchronous I/O for reads bigger than 16KB - request size</comment></value> +<value type="example">1<comment>Always do reads asynchronously + </comment></value> </samba:parameter> diff --git a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aiowritesize.xml b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aiowritesize.xml index c2ad118def0..8f42284111e 100644 --- a/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aiowritesize.xml +++ b/docs-xml/smbdotconf/tuning/aiowritesize.xml @@ -3,20 +3,22 @@ type="bytes" xmlns:samba="http://www.samba.org/samba/DTD/samba-doc"> <description> - <para>If Samba has been built with asynchronous I/O support and this - integer parameter is set to non-zero value, - Samba will write to file asynchronously when size of request is bigger + <para>If this integer parameter is set to a non-zero value, + Samba will write to files asynchronously when the request size is bigger than this value. Note that it happens only for non-chained and non-chaining reads and when not using write cache.</para> - - <para>Current implementation of asynchronous I/O in Samba 3.0 does support - only up to 10 outstanding asynchronous requests, read and write combined.</para> + <para>The only reasonable values for this parameter are 0 (no async I/O) and + 1 (always do async I/O).</para> + <para>Compared to <smbconfoption name="aio read size"/> this parameter has + a smaller effect, most writes should end up in the + file system cache. Writes that require space allocation might + benefit most from going asynchronous.</para> <related>write cache size</related> <related>aio read size</related> </description> <value type="default">0</value> -<value type="example">16384<comment> Use asynchronous I/O for writes bigger than 16KB - request size</comment></value> +<value type="example">1<comment>Always do writes asynchronously + </comment></value> </samba:parameter> |