Unlike Copy, the NFSv4.2 Allocate and Deallocate operations do not
allow a reply with partial completion. As such, the only way to
limit the time the operation takes to provide a reasonable RPC RTT
is to limit the size of the allocation/deallocation in the NFSv4.2
client.
This patch uses the sysctl vfs.nfs.maxalloclen to set
the limit on the size of the Deallocate operation.
There is no way to know how long a server will take to do an
deallocate operation, but 64Mbytes results in a reasonable
RPC RTT for the slow hardware I test on.
For an 8Gbyte deallocation, the elapsed time for doing it in 64Mbyte
chunks was the same (within margin of variability) as the
elapsed time taken for a single large deallocation
operation for a FreeBSD server with a UFS file system.
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