Subject: Re: CVS commit: syssrc
To: None <oster@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Graff <explorer@flame.org>
List: source-changes
Date: 07/07/1999 18:13:39
Greg Oster <oster@netbsd.org> writes:
> Log Message:
> Once upon a time, long long ago, there was a "fix" added to the
> RAIDframe driver to stop it from eating too much kernel memory when
> writing data. But that fix had a nasty side-affect of hurting write
> performance (*much* more than I thought it would). These changes nuke
> that "fix", and instead put in a more reasonable mechanism for limiting
> the number of simultaneous IO's which can be happening for each RAID device.
> The result is a noticeable improvement in write throughput. The End.
It's about time someone (I guess that would be you or me :) fixed this
right. :)
--Michael