Re: [PATCH 00/13] Asynchronous raid6 acceleration (part 1 of 2)

From: Neil Brown
Date: Thu Mar 19 2009 - 20:30:31 EST


On Wednesday March 18, dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> This series constitutes the pieces of the raid6 acceleration work that are
> aimed at the next merge window. It implements:
> 1/ An api for asynchronous raid6 parity generation and recovery routines
> 2/ Extensions to the dmaengine framework and dmatest
> 3/ RAID6 support for iop13xx
> 4/ Removal of the BUILD_BUG_ON in async_xor to support platforms with
> sizeof(dma_addr_t) > sizeof(void *). This increases the stack
> utilization in the asynchronous path.
>
> This series is available via git at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/async_tx.git raid6
>
> ...it is based on git://neil.brown.name/md md-scratch

Thanks.

I'll take the first patch (which is the only one that affects md
directly) and feed it to -next and eventually -linus. I'll leave the
rest for you.

>
> Part 2, which needs more testing, is the conversion of md/raid6. It is
> available at:
>
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/djbw/md.git raid6-for-neil

Thanks. I might have a look if I get a moment.

NeilBrown
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