Re: What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size?

2007-01-22 Thread Dan Williams
On 1/21/07, Liang Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan, Thanks for your reply. Still get two questions left. Suppose I have a MD-RAID5 array which consists of 8 disks. 1. Do we need to consider the chunk size of the RAID array when we set the value of Striped_Cache_Size? For example, if the chunk

What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size?

2007-01-21 Thread Liang Yang
Hello, I have tried to increase the Striped_Cache_Size from 256 (default for my MD-RAID5 array) to 8192, it does improve the MD-RAID5 Write performance which varies with the size of I/O packet. However, I'm still not very clean the meaning and the potential performance impact of this

RE: What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size?

2007-01-21 Thread Liang Yang
] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Dan Williams Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2007 11:07 PM To: Liang Yang Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: What is the exacting meaning of Striped_Cache_Size? On 1/21/07, Liang Yang [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hello, I have tried to increase