On 9/10/21 8:43 AM, Finlayson, James M CIV (USA) wrote: > All, > I have a suspicion this will help my efforts increasing the IOPS > ability of mdraid in 10-12 NVMe drive per raid group situations. > > Pure neophyte question, which I apologize for in advance, how can I > test this? Does this end up in a 5.15 release candidate kernel? It's queued up to go into Linus's tree before -rc1, so should be in 5.15-rc1 for you to test. > I want to make contributions wherever I can, as I have hardware and > needs, so I can act as a performance validator within reason. I know > I can't make contributions as a developer, but I'm willing to > contribute in areas where our goals are in alignment and this appears > to be one. Testing is definitely valuable, particularly for something like this! So please do test -rc1 and report back your findings. -- Jens Axboe