On Sunday July 22, dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx wrote: > Andrew, Neil, > > The stripe-queue patches are showing solid performance improvement. > > git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop md-for-linus > > drivers/md/raid5.c | 1484 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ > include/linux/raid/raid5.h | 87 +++- > 2 files changed, 1164 insertions(+), 407 deletions(-) > > Dan Williams (2): > raid5: add the stripe_queue object for tracking raid io requests (take2) > raid5: use stripe_queues to prioritize the "most deserving" requests (take4) > > I initially considered them 2.6.24 material but after fixing the sync+io > data corruption regression, fixing the large 'stripe_cache_size' values > performance regression, and seeing how well it performed on my IA > platform I would like them to be considered for 2.6.23. That being said > I have not yet tested expand operations or raid6. ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ I think we really shouldn't aim for 2.6.23 at this stage. The merge window is shut, and this is a little more that a bug fix. It's sounds great though. I'd really like to hear more success reports, and will do my own review a testing either this week or next. Certainly good for -mm. NeilBrown - 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
