Very low disk performance on 5.x

Poul-Henning Kamp phk at phk.freebsd.dk
Sun May 8 10:15:25 PDT 2005


In message <427E0E87.1040701 at samsco.org>, Scott Long writes:

>The solution is to re-engineer the way that I/O buffers pass through
>the kernel and only assign KVA when needed (for doing software parity
>calculations, for example).

I've hacked up a prototype to do this and there is no doubt that this
is the way we are headed, hopefully sometime in the 7-CURRENT period.

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