Re: [PATCH 06/13] async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication

[H. Peter Anvin]

Dan Williams wrote:
> Something is broken if we take this path.  This routine could stand to
> have a WARN_ONCE(), because if it is ever called there is something is
> wrong with the raid6 offload driver.  The intent is that the
> asynchronous recovery routines will perform an early check to see if
> the recovery can be offloaded (with a series of calls to
> async_xor/async_pq).  If not we fall back to the optimized synchronous
> recovery routines (raid6_2data_recov, raid6_datap_recov).  The only
> time this path will be taken is if we have decided to perform
> asynchronous recovery but at a later call to async_pq the offload
> driver reports it has run out of descriptors.

That doesn't explain what you expect the code to do.  It still doesn't 
make sense to me.

	-hpa
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