- fire up a new thread for parity re-writes, copybacks, and reconstructs.
The ioctl's which trigger these actions now return immediately.
- add progress accounting for the above actions.
- minor rototillage of rf_netbsdkintf.c to deal with all of the above.
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.
out-dated comments, and other unneeded stuff. This helps prepare
for cleaning up the rest of the code, and adding new functionality.
No functional changes to the kernel code in this commit.
Carnegie Mellon University. Full RAID implementation, including
levels 0, 1, 4, 5, 6, parity logging, and a few other goodies.
Ported to NetBSD by Greg Oster.
