Hi Dan, Dan Williams wrote: >> Why does it? I don't see why you'd need to cover the vector-vector case >> at all, since it doesn't appear anywhere in the algorithms. Certainly >> going backwards from a vector-vector set to derive if you can do a >> scalar-vector multiply when you should have known that in the first >> place is not really useful. >> >> >>> Looking closer, the only other caller, async_pq_zero_sum, can be >>> deleted because it has no users. So async_pq can become a static >>> routine in async_r6recov. >>> >>> >> That's another issue entirely, of course :) >> >> > > ...ah, but now I see your point and the root cause of the problem. > The caller needs to be modified to only require scalar multiplication > even in this corner case. > Argh... There is no vector-vector multiplication at all! You just need to swap the 'for' cycles back (as it was in the original patch by me and Yuri) to get rid of two-dimensional lookup at each step. Regards, Ilya. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html