From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: Robert Long <boblong@k9heritage.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Mirroring seek optimization
Date: Sun, 24 Aug 2014 12:45:36 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20140824124536.5f132895@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4CE5B469-1F8B-4F66-8993-8A752CE08420@k9heritage.com>
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On Sat, 23 Aug 2014 17:51:09 -0700 Robert Long <boblong@k9heritage.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I don’t know who to talk to, so I thought I would start here. A while back I developed a further optimization for speeding up read access in mirrored disk arrays. Testing reveals that it achieves about a 7% advantage over the current implementation. I had considered patenting it, but I found that there is an existing US patent (7,330,930) that is broad enough to cover the existing Linux mirror implementation as well as my improvement.
>
> Any ideas regarding who to contact regarding further discussion of applying the improvement would be appreciated.
>
> Bob Long
Post your patch, test results, documentation, anything to this list.
That would be the best way forward.
NeilBrown
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