On Mon, Jan 12, 2009 at 5:42 PM, Yuri Tikhonov <yur@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> This is the next attempt on asynchronous RAID-6 support. This patch-set
> has the Dan Williams' comments (Dec, 17) addressed with the following
> exception:
>
> - I still think that using 'enum dma_ctrl_flags' for PQ-specific
> operations is better than introducing another group of flags and
> enhance the device_prep_dma_pq()/device_prep_dma_pqzero_sum() with one
> more parameter. If unchanged 'enum dma_ctrl_flags' will be a criteria
> of acceptance, please let me know - I'll re-implement this exactly as
> Dan suggested.
Ignore that Dan character :-), dma_ctrl_flags is the proper place for
this functionality.
However, I do not believe we need/want ASYNC_TX_ZERO_{P,Q}. I will
reply to 0002 and 0003 with details.
>
>
> Fearing to look like a spammer, I post only those patches, which had
> been affected by the changes intended to address Dan's comments. These
> are the following five:
>
> 0002-async_tx-add-support-for-asynchronous-GF-multiplica.patch
> 0003-async_tx-add-support-for-asynchronous-RAID6-recover.patch
> 0004-md-run-RAID-6-stripe-operations-outside-the-lock.patch
> 0008-md-asynchronous-handle_parity_check6.patch
> 0011-ppc440spe-adma-ADMA-driver-for-the-PPC440SP-e-syst.patch
>
> As regarding the other six patches of asynchronous RAID-6 support
> patchset:
>
> 0001-async_tx-don-t-use-src_list-argument-of-async_xor.patch
> 0005-md-common-schedule_reconstruction-for-raid5-6.patch
> 0006-md-change-handle_stripe_fill6-to-work-in-asynchrono.patch
> 0007-md-rewrite-handle_stripe_dirtying6-in-asynchronous.patch
> 0009-md-change-handle_stripe6-to-work-asynchronously.patch
> 0010-md-remove-unused-functions.patch
>
> they are the same as in my 09 Dec 2008 post:
Do you have a git tree where you can post this series? That would
make it easier for me to track/review.
Thanks,
Dan
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