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@@ -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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