Re: [PATCH 00/19] Hardware Accelerated MD RAID5: Introduction

2006-09-14 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 12:17:55PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: ... Out of curiosity; how does accelerated compare to non-accelerated? One quick example: 4-disk SATA array rebuild on iop321 without acceleration - 'top' reports md0_resync and md0_raid5 dueling for the CPU each at ~50%

Re: [PATCH 00/19] Hardware Accelerated MD RAID5: Introduction

2006-09-13 Thread Jakob Oestergaard
On Mon, Sep 11, 2006 at 04:00:32PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote: Neil, ... Concerning the context switching performance concerns raised at the previous release, I have observed the following. For the hardware accelerated case it appears that performance is always better with the work queue