On Tue, Jul 15, 2008 at 8:55 PM, Richard Scobie <richard@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Ben Martin wrote: > >> I have been meaning to ask for a while, why is the stripe_cache_size >> set so low by default if it has such an effect on performance? > > I can't comment on the above, but looking at this: > > http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=120668318422034&w=2 > > with the 2.6.26 release, bumping up the stripe cache should no longer be > necessary. > To be clear bumping up the cache size can still increase performance but the ratio of performance/stripe_cache_size should now be larger, i.e. more sequential write performance at smaller cache sizes. > Regards, > > Richard -- 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
