Re: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional

H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-21T17:24:43Z

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

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