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Subject: Re: [9front] iounit: bump it across the board
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Quoth noam@pixelhero.dev:
> Quoth ori@eigenstate.org:
> > This patch bumps up the iounit in the kernel to 32k, and
> > introduces the IOUNIT constant to take advantage of it.
> 
> Any reason I shouldn't bump it to 1M or something locally?
> (in the kernel and, in userspace, in non-libthread applications)
> 
> - Noam Preil
> 

Try it out, but keep in mind that on a slower connection,
you have to wait for the entire iounit to get sent before
you can send the next request -- so, eg, tethering over
wifi means that your file IO needs to go through fully
before your next mouse message can get sent.