[PATCH 2.6] partly rewritten I2O subsystem to better fit into 2.6 kernel

[Markus Lidel <Markus.Lidel@shadowconnect.com>]

Hello,

finally there is a new version of the I2O subsystem available. The patch 
is 600k large and available under:

http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/patches/i2o-build_92.patch

and also bzip2 compressed under:

http://i2o.shadowconnect.com/patches/i2o-build_92.patch.bz2

The major benefits are:
- sysfs support
- PCI probing (which now should allow PCI hotplugging)
- dynamically allocated request queues and gendisks for block devices
   and a own request queue per disk (which results in much better
   performance on many parallel requests)

To verify the stability, we've run 4 parallel bonnie++ on a dual Opteron 
on 4 separate disks without a problem. To generate huge load we've also 
created a ext2 filesystem on all 4 disks in parallel. This lead to 
hangups of single disks in earlier versions, but is now fixed.
Also the driver was tested on 32-bit as well, but only with 2 disks :-)

Compared to my last post, all subsystems are now converted to use the 
new API.

Please include the patch to get a wider exposure to test it, and let me 
know, if there is something missing or there is something to change.

Any comment is appreciated.



Best regards,


Markus Lidel
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Markus Lidel (Senior IT Consultant)

Shadow Connect GmbH
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