On Mon, 6 Sep 2010 16:14:17 -0500 (CDT) Roy Keene <rkeene@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Below is a patch that adds support for an alternate read balancing > strategy that blindly performs read round-robbin to the MD RAID1 driver. > This can be configure per array via sysfs. The default behaviour is to > preserve existing behaviour (biased read balancing) > > I am looking for comments and possible inclusion upstream. > > The motivation behind this is that during a sequential read, under some > circumstances balancing the I/O through the paths produces better > throughput than reading sequentially from one device. The term is "round-robin", not "robbin", you may want to correct the word everywhere, most importantly in the actual patch. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Round-robin -- With respect, Roman
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