Re: [rfc] Proof-of-concept: refactoring raid6 recovery for the async case

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Dan Williams wrote:
> The goal of the following implementation is to demonstrate a proposed
> re-factoring of the raid6 recovery code to isolate the operations that
> can be accelerated by hardware.  These operations are xor,
> gf-multiplication by a scalar (mult), and sum_product (the xor-sum of
> two vectors multiplied by two scalars).
> 
> This version passes the tests from drivers/md/raid6test/test.c and
> barring objections the approach (of course not this code) will be used
> in the next version of the async-raid6 patchset.
> 
> Thanks,
> Dan

Seems quite reasonable to me.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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