Re: [PATCH 000 of 006] raid5: Offload RAID operations to a workqueue

2006-06-29 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Wed, 2006-06-28 at 11:23 -0700, Dan Williams wrote: This patch set is a step towards enabling hardware offload in the md-raid5 driver. These patches are considered experimental and are not yet suitable for production environments. As mentioned, this patch set is the first step in that it

Re: [PATCH 000 of 006] raid5: Offload RAID operations to a workqueue

2006-06-29 Thread Dan Williams
Hi, since using work queues involve more context switches than doing things inline... have you measured the performance impact of your changes? If so... was there any impact that you could measure, and how big was that? Greetings, Arjan van de Ven Good point. Especially on ARM

[PATCH 000 of 006] raid5: Offload RAID operations to a workqueue

2006-06-28 Thread Dan Williams
This patch set is a step towards enabling hardware offload in the md-raid5 driver. These patches are considered experimental and are not yet suitable for production environments. As mentioned, this patch set is the first step in that it moves work from handle_stripe5 to a work queue. The next