Re: [GIT PATCH 0/2] stripe-queue for 2.6.23 consideration

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Sunday July 22, dan.j.williams@intel.com 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.
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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