Re: [PATCH 00/13] Asynchronous raid6 acceleration (part 1 of 2)

[Neil Brown <neilb@suse.de>]

On Wednesday March 18, dan.j.williams@intel.com wrote:
> This series constitutes the pieces of the raid6 acceleration work that are
> aimed at the next merge window.  It implements:
> 1/ An api for asynchronous raid6 parity generation and recovery routines
> 2/ Extensions to the dmaengine framework and dmatest
> 3/ RAID6 support for iop13xx
> 4/ Removal of the BUILD_BUG_ON in async_xor to support platforms with
>    sizeof(dma_addr_t) > sizeof(void *).  This increases the stack
>    utilization in the asynchronous path.
> 
> This series is available via git at:
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx.git raid6
> 
> ...it is based on git://neil.brown.name/md md-scratch

Thanks.

I'll take the first patch (which is the only one that affects md
directly) and feed it to -next and eventually -linus.  I'll leave the
rest for you.

> 
> Part 2, which needs more testing, is the conversion of md/raid6.  It is
> available at:
> 
> 	git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/md.git raid6-for-neil

Thanks.  I might have a look if I get a moment.

NeilBrown