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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Jim Kukunas <james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>
Cc: neilb@suse.de, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: lib/raid6: SSSE3 optimized recovery functions v2
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2012 13:14:05 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4F87378D.7080505@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1334261073-14781-1-git-send-email-james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com>

On 04/12/2012 01:04 PM, Jim Kukunas wrote:
> 
> This keeps with the existing code conventions. The code block is:
> 
> extern const u8 raid6_gfmul[256][256] __attribute__((aligned(256)));
> extern const u8 raid6_vgfmul[256][32] __attribute__((aligned(256)));
> extern const u8 raid6_gfexp[256]      __attribute__((aligned(256)));
> extern const u8 raid6_gfinv[256]      __attribute__((aligned(256)));
> extern const u8 raid6_gfexi[256]      __attribute__((aligned(256)));
> 
>> WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
>> #120: FILE: lib/raid6/algos.c:103:
>> +		printk("raid6: using %s recovery algorith\n", nest->name);
>>
>> WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
>> #122: FILE: lib/raid6/algos.c:105:
>> +		printk("raid6: Yikes! No recovery algorithm found!\n");
>>
>> WARNING: printk() should include KERN_ facility level
>> #159: FILE: lib/raid6/algos.c:176:
>> +		printk("raid6: Yikes!  No memory available.\n");
> 
> Again, these are following the conventions of the existing code such as:
> 
> printk("raid6: using algorithm %s (%ld MB/s)\n",
> 
> In fact, the last printk, about no memory available, was simply moved to a 
> different line in my patch.
> 

A lot of the RAID-6 code predates the modern kernel conventions.  It
would be good to clean that up, but that is largely orthogonal to this
patch.

	-hpa


      parent reply	other threads:[~2012-04-12 20:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-04-11 19:40 lib/raid6: SSSE3 optimized recovery functions v2 Jim Kukunas
2012-04-11 19:40 ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/raid6: fix test program build Jim Kukunas
2012-04-11 19:40 ` [PATCH 2/4] lib/raid6: Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions Jim Kukunas
2012-04-11 19:40 ` [PATCH 3/4] lib/raid6: update test program for " Jim Kukunas
2012-04-11 19:40 ` [PATCH 4/4] lib/raid6: cleanup gen_syndrome function selection Jim Kukunas
2012-04-12  6:18 ` lib/raid6: SSSE3 optimized recovery functions v2 NeilBrown
2012-04-12 20:04   ` Jim Kukunas
2012-04-12 20:04     ` [PATCH 1/4] lib/raid6: fix test program build Jim Kukunas
2012-04-19  0:33       ` NeilBrown
2012-04-12 20:04     ` [PATCH 2/4] lib/raid6: Add SSSE3 optimized recovery functions Jim Kukunas
2012-04-12 20:04     ` [PATCH 3/4] lib/raid6: update test program for " Jim Kukunas
2012-04-12 20:04     ` [PATCH 4/4] lib/raid6: cleanup gen_syndrome function selection Jim Kukunas
2012-04-12 20:14     ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]

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