Re: raid5 autoselecting a slower checksum function

From: Tomas Szepe (szepe@pinerecords.com)
Date: Mon Jul 28 2003 - 15:54:38 EST


> [bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp]
>
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:17:00 +0300 (EEST)
> Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
> > Why doesn't it select p5_mmx if it is 37% faster than pIII_sse?
>
> This has come up before - see :
>
> http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week01/1894.html

Fair enough, but wouldn't it be more appropriate if the kernel printed
a message like "SSE present, good. No need to try the other checksumming
methods" in this case?

-- 
Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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