Adds a module parameter to control raid5's internal cache size. Index: linux-2.6.9/drivers/md/raid5.c =================================================================== --- linux-2.6.9.orig/drivers/md/raid5.c 2006-05-21 17:57:25.000000000 +0400 +++ linux-2.6.9/drivers/md/raid5.c 2006-05-22 00:01:30.000000000 +0400 @@ -28,7 +28,8 @@ * Stripe cache */ -#define NR_STRIPES 256 +static int raid5_nr_stripes = 256 * 8; + #define STRIPE_SIZE PAGE_SIZE #define STRIPE_SHIFT (PAGE_SHIFT - 9) #define STRIPE_SECTORS (STRIPE_SIZE>>9) @@ -92,7 +93,7 @@ static inline void __release_stripe(raid list_add_tail(&sh->lru, &conf->inactive_list); atomic_dec(&conf->active_stripes); if (!conf->inactive_blocked || - atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (NR_STRIPES*3/4)) + atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (conf->max_nr_stripes*3/4)) wake_up(&conf->wait_for_stripe); } } @@ -255,7 +256,7 @@ static struct stripe_head *get_active_st conf->inactive_blocked = 1; wait_event_lock_irq(conf->wait_for_stripe, !list_empty(&conf->inactive_list) && - (atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (NR_STRIPES *3/4) + (atomic_read(&conf->active_stripes) < (conf->max_nr_stripes *3/4) || !conf->inactive_blocked), conf->device_lock, unplug_slaves(conf->mddev); @@ -1637,7 +1638,7 @@ static int run (mddev_t *mddev) conf->chunk_size = mddev->chunk_size; conf->level = mddev->level; conf->algorithm = mddev->layout; - conf->max_nr_stripes = NR_STRIPES; + conf->max_nr_stripes = raid5_nr_stripes; /* device size must be a multiple of chunk size */ mddev->size &= ~(mddev->chunk_size/1024 -1); @@ -1957,5 +1958,6 @@ static void raid5_exit (void) module_init(raid5_init); module_exit(raid5_exit); +module_param(raid5_nr_stripes, int, 0644); MODULE_LICENSE("GPL"); MODULE_ALIAS("md-personality-4"); /* RAID5 */