Re: 2.4.17 raid5 checksumming function selection wierdness

David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Fri, 11 Jan 2002 04:17:08 -0800 (PST)


From: Anders Vedmar <anders.vedmar@interactiveinstitute.se>
Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2002 13:12:53 +0100

The raid5 code in 2.4.17 seems to select the slowest available
checksumming function.

It does so because: 1) It performs better for the cache miss
case and 2) it is more cache friendly
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