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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
Cc: 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: Tue, 21 Apr 2009 10:23:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49EE00F9.6090000@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49EDD11E.2030309@tmr.com>

Bill Davidsen wrote:
> It would seem that that space could be allocated and populated when
> raid6 was first used, as part of the initialization. I haven't looked at
> that code since it was new, so I might be optimistic about doing it that
> way.

We could use vmalloc() and generate the tables at initialization time.
However, having a separate module which exports the raid6 declaration
and uses the raid5 module as a subroutine library seems easier.

	-hpa

-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.


  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-21 17:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ 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
2009-04-21 13:58         ` Bill Davidsen
2009-04-21 17:23           ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
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
2009-04-23  8:07                     ` Andre Noll

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