From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Richard Scobie <richard@sauce.co.nz>
Subject: Re: Benchmarks: Linux Kernel RAID vs a Hardware RAID setup
Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2008 15:55:37 +1200
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To: Ben Martin <monkeyiq@users.sourceforge.net>
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Ben Martin wrote:

> I have been meaning to ask for a while, why is the stripe_cache_size
> set so low by default if it has such an effect on performance? 

I can't comment on the above, but looking at this:

http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=120668318422034&w=2

with the 2.6.26 release, bumping up the stripe cache should no longer be 
necessary.

Regards,

Richard