Re: choice of raid5 checksumming algorithm wrong ?

[Rene Rebe <rene.rebe _at_ xxxxxxx>]

Hi.

In the case s.o. wants to pull the patch:

http://www.rocklinux.org/sources/package/base/linux24/82-raid5-niceer-output.patch

It is only a one-liner. It is not really nice since I print the
"writing arround L2 cache" text when XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE is defined -
this might also be the case for an later AlitVec version for PowerPC
or so. So we might want a more generic text - or a text in the
appropriated .h file whetre XOR_SELECT_TEMPLATE is defined ...

On: 11 Jan 2003 20:52:00 +0100,
    Soeren Sonnenburg <kernel _at_ nn7.de> wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 20:39, Rene Rebe wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > I also consider the kprint message a useability bug - and this is why
> > I posted a patch that prints out that the algorithm is choosen to
> > write "arround" the L2 cache ... - We patch this in our ROCK Linux
> > standard patches ...
> 
> I would vote for such a cosmetic patch to be included...
> 
> Soeren.
> 
> > On: Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:45:04 +0100,
> >     Lionel Bouton <Lionel.Bouton _at_ inet6.fr> wrote:
> > > Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
> > > 
> > > >Hi!
> > > >
> > > >I really do wonder whether the displayed message is wrong or why it
> > > >always chooses the slowest checksumming function (happens with 2.4.19 -
> > > >21pre3)
> > > >  
> > > >
> > > SSE is always preferred because unlike other checksumming code it 
> > > doesn't use the processor caches when reading/writing data/checksum.
> > > This is slower (if several GB/s can be considered slow) for the 
> > > checksumming but far better for the overall system performance.
> > > 
> > > LB.
> > 
> > - Ren> > 
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