Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH v2 1/1] dm-raid45

[Heinz Mauelshagen <heinzm redhat com>]

Please don't forget the point about 3rd party tests of the xor
optimization in dm-reaid45 vs. the crypto one. I want that to be tested
in order to prove, if we got an advantage over the crypto implementation
or not.

Heinz

On Wed, 2009-12-09 at 05:43 -0500, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 08, 2009 at 05:38:06PM -0700, Dan Williams wrote:
> > Where did the investigation of reusing md/raid5.c [1] end up?  This
> > would simultaneously enable hardware accelerated raid6 for dmraid.
> 
> Yes, adding different raid code to dm is a bad idea, even more so after
> Neil showed a useful prototype of reusing the md code.
>