linux-kernel - Re: [md-accel PATCH 00/19] md raid acceleration and the async

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Message-ID: <46829432.4050302@tmr.com>
Date:	Wed, 27 Jun 2007 12:45:38 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@...el.com>
CC:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-raid@...r.kernel.org,
	neilb@...e.de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org, davem@...emloft.net,
	christopher.leech@...el.com, shannon.nelson@...el.com,
	herbert@...dor.apana.org.au, jeff@...zik.org
Subject: Re: [md-accel PATCH 00/19] md raid acceleration and the async_tx
 api

Dan Williams wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> Per Andrew's suggestion this is the md raid5 acceleration patch set
> updated with more thorough changelogs to lower the barrier to entry for
> reviewers.  To get started with the code I would suggest the following
> order:
> [md-accel PATCH 01/19] dmaengine: refactor dmaengine around dma_async_tx_descriptor
> [md-accel PATCH 04/19] async_tx: add the async_tx api
> [md-accel PATCH 07/19] md: raid5_run_ops - run stripe operations outside sh->lock
> [md-accel PATCH 16/19] dmaengine: driver for the iop32x, iop33x, and iop13xx raid engines
>
> The patch set can be broken down into three main categories:
> 1/ API (async_tx: patches 1 - 4)
> 2/ implementation (md changes: patches 5 - 15)
> 3/ driver (iop-adma: patches 16 - 19)
>
> I have worked with Neil to get approval of the category 2 changes.
> However for the category 1 and 3 changes there was no obvious
> merge-path/maintainer to work through.  I have thus far extrapolated
> Neil's comments about 2 out to 1 and 3, Jeff gave some direction on a
> early revision about the scalability of the API, and the patch set has
> picked up various fixes and suggestions from being in -mm for a few
> releases.  Please help me ensure that this code is ready for Linus to
> pull for 2.6.23.
>
> 	git://lost.foo-projects.org/~dwillia2/git/iop md-accel-linus
>   

Dan, I hope you will release these as a patchset against 2.6.22 when 
it's out or 2.6.21. I find I have a lot more confidence in results, good 
or bad, when comparing something I have run in production with just one 
patchset added. There are enough other changes in an -rc to confuse the 
issue, and I don't run them in production (at least not usually).

-- 
bill davidsen <davidsen@....com>
  CTO TMR Associates, Inc
  Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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