Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 21 Mar 2009 12:16:16 -0700 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 06/13] async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication |
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Ilya Yanok wrote: >>> >> For any n (which would mean any GF field)? In that case, that is >> generic scalar-vector multiplication... >> > > Ok. I think I got it. Vectors are things that depend on position inside > buffer and scalars are things that don't, am I right? In that sense we > don't have any vector-vector multiplication. Both async_gen_syndrome() > and async_pq() use constant coefficients. So I don't really understand > the problem here. >
Perhaps the interface is just too confusing (in which case it needs to at least be better documented), but at least the synchronous simulation code looked like it was doing a vector-vector multiply.
-hpa
-- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
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