Per Bill Davidsen's request I have made available a 2.6.22.1 based kernel with the current raid5 performance changes I have been working on: 1/ Offload engine acceleration (recently merged for the 2.6.23 development cycle) 2/ Stripe-queue, an evolutionary change to the raid5 queuing model (take4) The offload engine work only helps platforms with offload engines and should not affect performance otherwise. The stripe-queue work is an attempt to increase sequential write performance and should benefit most platforms. The patch series is available on the Xscale(r) IOP SourceForge page: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/xscaleiop/patches-2.6.22.1-iop1-x86fix.tar.gz Use quilt to apply the series on top of a fresh 2.6.22.1 source tree: $ wget http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/v2.6/linux-2.6.22.1.tar.bz2 $ tar xjf linux-2.6.22.1.tar.bz2 $ cd linux-2.6.22.1 $ tar xzvf patches-2.6.22.1-iop1.tar.gz $ cp patches/series.x86 patches/series $ quilt push -a Configure and build the kernel as normal, there are no configuration options for stripe-queue. Any feedback, bug report, fix, or suggestion is welcome. Thanks, Dan - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
