Goswin von Brederlow wrote: > "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@xxxxxxxxx> writes: > >> Bill Davidsen wrote: >>> It would seem that that space could be allocated and populated when >>> raid6 was first used, as part of the initialization. I haven't looked at >>> that code since it was new, so I might be optimistic about doing it that >>> way. >> We could use vmalloc() and generate the tables at initialization time. >> However, having a separate module which exports the raid6 declaration >> and uses the raid5 module as a subroutine library seems easier. >> >> -hpa > > Combine the two. > > The raid6 module initializes the tables for raid6 and uses the raid5 > module as subroutine library. > It really doesn't make sense at all. It's easier at that point to retain the static tables. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf. -- 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
