On Mon, Nov 27, 2006 at 06:26:34PM +0000, Eric Van Hensbergen wrote: > This is the first cut of a device-mapper target which provides a write-back > or write-through block cache. It is intended to be used in conjunction with > remote block devices such as iSCSI or ATA-over-Ethernet, particularly in > cluster situations. > > In performance tests with iSCSI, gave peformance improvements of 2-10x that > of iSCSI alone when Postmark or Bonnie loads were applied from 8 clients to > a single server. Evidence suggests even greater differences on larger > clusters. A detailed performance analysis will be vailable shortly via a > technical report on IBM's CyberDigest. > > This module was developed during an intership at IBM Research by > Ming Zhao. Please direct comments to both Ming and myself.
I don't quite understand the need for this. Do you need this module because your iscsi target doesn't use the pagecache on the server? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
