From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>,
Ric Wheeler <rwheeler@redhat.com>,
chris.mason@oracle.com, linux-btrfs@vger.kernel.org,
neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] md: Factor out RAID6 algorithms into lib/
Date: Sun, 19 Jul 2009 22:21:36 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4A63FEE0.9090103@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1248026647.5646.36.camel@macbook.infradead.org>
David Woodhouse wrote:
>
> At this point we've actually implemented the fundamental parts of
> RAID[56] support in btrfs, and it's looking like all we really want is
> the arithmetic routines.
>
Given that you have no legacy requirements, and that supporting more
than two disks may be interesting, it may very well be worth spending
some time at new codes now rather than later. Part of that
investigation, though, is going to have to be if and how they can be
accelerated.
-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:[~2009-07-20 5:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-07-13 14:11 [PATCH 1/4] md: Factor out RAID6 algorithms into lib/ David Woodhouse
2009-07-15 19:23 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-15 20:16 ` Chris Mason
2009-07-15 22:11 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-16 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-17 14:22 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-07-17 15:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-17 15:35 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-07-17 15:40 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-17 15:47 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-07-17 15:49 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-17 15:58 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-07-17 18:59 ` Alex Elsayed
2009-07-17 19:02 ` Alex Elsayed
2009-07-29 18:16 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-17 19:12 ` Gregory Maxwell
2009-07-18 11:53 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-18 12:45 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-18 18:50 ` Alex Elsayed
2009-07-18 18:52 ` Alex Elsayed
2009-07-29 18:20 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-07-18 12:49 ` Ric Wheeler
2009-07-18 16:26 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-18 18:42 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-18 20:04 ` Dan Williams
2009-07-19 18:04 ` David Woodhouse
2009-07-20 5:21 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2009-07-17 15:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
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