From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Cc: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>,
Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@zmailer.org>,
Jesper Juhl <jj@chaosbits.net>,
Prakash Punnoor <prakash@punnoor.de>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
neilb@suse.de
Subject: Re: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional
Date: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:35:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EFC5DD.9090201@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090422185703.GF13280@skl-net.de>
Andre Noll wrote:
> On 11:39, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Yes, I believe it would be easier than having dynamically allocated
>> arrays. Dynamically generated arrays using static memory allocations
>> (bss) is one thing, but that would only reduce size of the module on
>> disk, which I don't think anyone considers a problem.
>
> We would save 64K of RAM in the raid5-only case if we'd defer the
> allocation of the multiplication table until the first raid6 array
> is about to be started.
Yes, and we'd have to access it through a pointer for the rest of eternity.
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-04-23 1:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-04-18 7:46 Proposal: make RAID6 code optional Prakash Punnoor
2009-04-18 8:09 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-04-18 9:16 ` Prakash Punnoor
2009-04-18 13:56 ` Jesper Juhl
2009-04-18 14:58 ` Matti Aarnio
2009-04-19 2:07 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-19 2:27 ` NeilBrown
2009-04-19 6:28 ` Neil Brown
2009-04-19 6:28 ` Neil Brown
2009-04-21 13:58 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-21 17:23 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-22 9:01 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-22 12:34 ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-22 15:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-22 18:00 ` Andre Noll
2009-04-22 18:31 ` Goswin von Brederlow
2009-04-22 18:50 ` Andre Noll
2009-04-22 18:39 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-22 18:57 ` Andre Noll
2009-04-23 1:35 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-04-23 8:07 ` Andre Noll
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