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Re: CVS commit: syssrc



Greg Oster <oster%netbsd.org@localhost> 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



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