Re: 2.4.17 raid5 checksumming function selection wierdness

Dave Jones (davej@suse.de)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:26:29 +0100 (CET)


On Fri, 11 Jan 2002, Anders Vedmar wrote:

> The raid5 code in 2.4.17 seems to select the slowest available
> checksumming function.
> 8regs : 2148.000 MB/sec
> pIII_sse : 1272.000 MB/sec
> raid5: using function: pIII_sse (1272.000 MB/sec)

SSE is favoured due to it avoiding trashing the cache contents.

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