Bug#375742: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686-smp: sync speed of RAID devices is 2000K/sec by default, because don't honor speed_limit_max

[Moritz Muehlenhoff <jmm@inutil.org>]

On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 10:07:27PM +0100, Jose Calhariz wrote:
> Package: linux-image-2.6.16-1-686-smp
> Version: 2.6.16-11bpo1
> Severity: normal
> 
> The sync speed of RAID devices is only 2000K/sec by default.  It's
> because the raid driver don't honor
> /proc/sys/dec/raid/speed_limit_max and is using speed_limit_min as
> the max.
> 
> speed_limit_min is 1000 by default, if I increase the number for 5000,
> the sync speed of the RAID increases to 5000K/sec.  If I increase to a
> bigger number the sync speed of the raid maxes on hardware capability.
> 
> I believe in the kernel 2.6.16 the RAID driver use speed_limit_min as
> the max, and ignores speed_limit_max.  On kernel 2.6.8 the behaviour
> seems to be correct, the RAID driver honors speed_limit_max.

Does this error still occur with more recent kernel versions?

Cheers,
        Moritz