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SubjectRe: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional
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"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> writes:

> Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> It would seem that that space could be allocated and populated when
>> raid6 was first used, as part of the initialization. I haven't looked at
>> that code since it was new, so I might be optimistic about doing it that
>> way.
>
> We could use vmalloc() and generate the tables at initialization time.
> However, having a separate module which exports the raid6 declaration
> and uses the raid5 module as a subroutine library seems easier.
>
> -hpa

Combine the two.

The raid6 module initializes the tables for raid6 and uses the raid5
module as subroutine library.

MfG
Goswin


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