Re: [PATCH] adjustable raid1 balancing (was Re: Slower read accesson RAID-1 than regular partition)

[Ingo Molnar]

On Fri, 17 Sep 1999, James Manning wrote:

> Since the previous sysctl code had been ripped out, this was pretty

James, are you patching against the latest RAID source? 2.3.18 has a
painfully outdated RAID driver. (i'm working on porting the newest stuff
to 2.3 right now)

> simple, just pulling back in the code from 2.2.11-ac3.  I'm hoping that
> the sysctl getting ripped out was more for acceptance, since speed-limit
> I still think was a good idea, even as a maximum, as it helped make the
> array more usable...

sure, and it's present and used in the latest RAID driver ...

maybe the fact that you are using the old driver explains why you see bad
RAID1 performance? What performance do you see with the newest RAID driver
on 2.2.12?

-- mingo