[PATCH v3 5/5] lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation

H. Peter Anvin hpa at linux.intel.com
Mon Jul 8 18:16:14 EDT 2013


On 07/08/2013 03:12 PM, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
> Rebased/reworked a patch contributed by Rob Herring that uses
> NEON intrinsics to perform the RAID-6 syndrome calculations.
> It uses the existing unroll.awk code to generate several
> unrolled versions of which the best performing one is selected
> at boot time.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro.org>
> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico at linaro.org>
> Cc: hpa at linux.intel.com

I can't comment on the correctness of the code since I'm not familiar
with the Neon instruction set, but I don't see anything inherently
problematic with the patchset either.

	-hpa





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