From: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>
To: xxiao <xiaoxianghua@gmail.com>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: crypto/xor.c and lib/raid6 to improve raid5/6 performance?
Date: Wed, 16 Oct 2013 17:28:25 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20131016172825.3a06fe99@notabene.brown> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP7cwtumKJ5t3cb0bACaVtGVKXT2jibzWzdjqY2Si=uNjDg1KQ@mail.gmail.com>
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On Fri, 11 Oct 2013 15:20:32 -0500 xxiao <xiaoxianghua@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'm looking for ways to speed up RAID calculations(e.g XOR for RAID5) plus
> offloading them from CPU as much as possible. During kernel boot up I
> noticed two outputs:
>
> crypto/xor.c:
> xor: measuring software checksum speed
> 8regs : 3379.000 MB/sec
> 8regs_prefetch: 2969.000 MB/sec
> 32regs : 3398.000 MB/sec
> 32regs_prefetch: 3054.000 MB/sec
> xor: using function: 32regs (3398.000 MB/sec)
>
> lib/raid6:
> raid6: altivecx1 1470 MB/s
> raid6: altivecx2 1820 MB/s
> raid6: altivecx4 2756 MB/s
> raid6: altivecx8 2874 MB/s
> raid6: int64x1 480 MB/s
> raid6: int64x2 832 MB/s
> raid6: int64x4 1221 MB/s
> raid6: int64x8 1160 MB/s
> raid6: using algorithm altivecx8 (2874 MB/s)
> raid6: using intx1 recovery algorithm
>
> However I'm unclear how the md drivers(especially RAID5, and/or RAID6) can
> benefit from these code, can I use them to accelerate RAID5/6's XOR with
> these code somehow?
>
RAID5 and RAID6 already use exactly this code to perform xor and RAID6
calculations.
If a platform has some sort of co-processor which can do these calculations,
md can certainly use that too.
Some of the relevant code is in "linux/crypto/async_tx"
Other code is elsewhere in the tree. looks for "adma" for "advanced
DMA" in file names.
NeilBrown
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2013-10-11 20:20 crypto/xor.c and lib/raid6 to improve raid5/6 performance? xxiao
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