Messages in this thread | | | From | Goswin von Brederlow <> | Subject | Re: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional | Date | Wed, 22 Apr 2009 11:01:16 +0200 |
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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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