From: Jurriaan <thunder7@xs4all.nl>
To: "J. Ryan Earl" <heretic@clanhk.org>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: AMD64 and RAID6
Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 20:52:29 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040508185229.GA869@middle.of.nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <409D1D86.6050907@clanhk.org>
From: J. Ryan Earl <heretic@clanhk.org>
Date: Sat, May 08, 2004 at 12:48:54PM -0500
> Why doesn't RAID6 use the int64x4 algorithm in this situation? What is
> the motivation of setting the 'prefer field' on the sse algorithms and
> not on the integer based algorithms?
>
IIRC, the sse variants have better cache-behaviour, and are thus almost
always selected.
Try googling for exact answers, this has come up before.
HTH,
Jurriaan
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-08 18:52 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-08 17:48 AMD64 and RAID6 J. Ryan Earl
2004-05-08 18:52 ` Jurriaan [this message]
2004-05-11 2:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
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