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From: Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 1/1] dm-raid45
Date: Wed, 09 Dec 2009 18:43:26 +0100
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Please don't forget the point about 3rd party tests of the xor
optimization in dm-reaid45 vs. the crypto one. I want that to be tested
in order to prove, if we got an advantage over the crypto implementation
or not.

Heinz

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 05:43 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:38:06PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Where did the investigation of reusing md/raid5.c [1] end up?  This
> > would simultaneously enable hardware accelerated raid6 for dmraid.
> 
> Yes, adding different raid code to dm is a bad idea, even more so after
> Neil showed a useful prototype of reusing the md code.
>