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authorDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-08-29 19:13:13 -0700
committerDan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>2009-08-29 19:13:13 -0700
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md/raid456: distribute raid processing over multiple cores
Now that the resources to handle stripe_head operations are allocated percpu it is possible for raid5d to distribute stripe handling over multiple cores. This conversion also adds a call to cond_resched() in the non-multicore case to prevent one core from getting monopolized for raid operations. Cc: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@linux.intel.com> Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/drivers/md/Kconfig b/drivers/md/Kconfig
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@@ -154,6 +154,17 @@ config MD_RAID456
If unsure, say Y.
+config MULTICORE_RAID456
+ bool "RAID-4/RAID-5/RAID-6 Multicore processing (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+ depends on MD_RAID456
+ depends on SMP
+ depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+ ---help---
+ Enable the raid456 module to dispatch per-stripe raid operations to a
+ thread pool.
+
+ If unsure, say N.
+
config MD_RAID6_PQ
tristate
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