[PATCH 0/2] md/raid6: improvements for ARM/arm64

[Ard Biesheuvel]

On 9 August 2017 at 18:51, Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> Hi Ard,
>
> On Thu, Jul 13, 2017 at 06:15:59PM +0100, Ard Biesheuvel wrote:
>> 1. Use a faster algorithm for the delta syndrome
>> 2. Implement recovery routines in NEON
>>
>> As before, NEON intrinsics are used, which means the same code can be
>> compiled for ARM as well as arm64.
>>
>> Given that there does not seem to be a maintainer for lib/raid6, could
>> we take this through one of the ARM trees instead?
>>
>> Ard Biesheuvel (2):
>>   md/raid6: use faster multiplication for ARM NEON delta syndrome
>>   md/raid6: implement recovery using ARM NEON intrinsics
>>
>>  include/linux/raid/pq.h      |   1 +
>>  lib/raid6/Makefile           |   4 +-
>>  lib/raid6/algos.c            |   3 +
>>  lib/raid6/neon.uc            |  33 +++++-
>>  lib/raid6/recov_neon.c       | 110 ++++++++++++++++++
>>  lib/raid6/recov_neon_inner.c | 117 ++++++++++++++++++++
>
> IIRC, you wanted these patches merged via the arm64 tree? I'll apply
> them to the for-next/core branch.
>

Yes, please.