From: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Date: Sat, 19 Jul 2008 00:14:44 +0000 (-0700)
Subject: Document preread_bypass_threshold
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Document preread_bypass_threshold

Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
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diff --git a/md.4 b/md.4
index af1a7968..ef43d9d7 100644
--- a/md.4
+++ b/md.4
@@ -530,6 +530,15 @@ all read and write operations to the array.  The default is 128.
 Increasing this number can increase performance in some situations, at
 some cost in system memory.
 
+.TP
+.B md/preread_bypass_threshold
+This is only available on RAID5 and RAID6.  This variable sets the
+number of times MD will service a full-stripe-write before servicing a
+stripe that requires some "prereading".  For fairness this defaults to
+1.  Setting this to 0 maximizes sequential-write throughput at the cost
+of fairness to threads doing small or random writes.  Valid values are 0
+to stripe_cache_size.
+
 
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