linux-kernel - Re: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional

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Message-ID: <20090422185007.GE13280@skl-net.de>
Date:	Wed, 22 Apr 2009 20:50:07 +0200
From:	Andre Noll <maan@...temlinux.org>
To:	Goswin von Brederlow <goswin-v-b@....de>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>,
	Matti Aarnio <matti.aarnio@...iler.org>,
	Jesper Juhl <jj@...osbits.net>,
	Prakash Punnoor <prakash@...noor.de>,
	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-raid@...r.kernel.org, neilb@...e.de
Subject: Re: Proposal: make RAID6 code optional

On 20:31, Goswin von Brederlow wrote:
> > Really? Easier than keeping only two 256-byte arrays for exp() and
> > log() and use these at runtime to populate the (dynamically allocated)
> > 64K GF multiplication table? That seems to be really simple and would
> > still shave off 64K of kernel memory for raid5-only users.
> >
> > Andre
> 
> Oh, you mean when the first raid6 device is started and not when the
> module is loaded.

Yes, that's what I was trying to say.

Andre
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