Re: RAID5 checksum algorithm selection

From: Jurriaan (thunder7@xs4all.nl)
Date: Tue Sep 03 2002 - 09:41:01 EST


From: Jan Kasprzak <kas@informatics.muni.cz>
Date: Tue, Sep 03, 2002 at 04:18:46PM +0200
>
> Why does the kernel decide to use the pIII_sse function,
> even though the p5_mmx is faster?
>
> The kernel is 2.4.20-pre5-ac1.
>
Try the source, there's a comment at the end of include/i386/xor.h that
explains (not in great detail, but perhaps google or another archive can
help there?).

Good luck,
Jurriaan

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