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SubjectRe: [PATCH 06/13] async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication
Hi H.Peter,

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> + * @scfs: array of source coefficients used in GF-multiplication
>>
>
> Array of source coefficients? Are you doing a vector-vector
> multiplication here?
>
> Given this code:
>
>
>> for (d = 0; d < len; d++) {
>> + wq = wp = ptrs[0][d];
>> + for (z = 1; z < src_cnt; z++) {
>> + wd = ptrs[z][d];
>> + wp ^= wd;
>> + wq ^= raid6_gfmul[scfs[z]][wd];
>> + }
>>
>
> ... it kinds of looks like that.
>
> This is really quite expensive! The whole point of the restore code
> that exists is that we never do a two-dimensional lookup, instead
> caching a pointer to the multiplication table that we intend to use,
> because the RAID-6 code only ever contains scalar-vector multiplications.
>
> I really don't get this, and I think it's broken.
>
Well, that code IS broken. Dan, I think you over-optimized this part.
Have you ever tested this code path? Besides of doing two-dimensional
lookup at every step it ignores scfs[0] completely so if it's not equal
to one the result is wrong.

Regards, Ilya.



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