Re: buggy raid checksumming selection?

From: Dave Jones
Date: Fri Jan 23 2004 - 09:16:26 EST


On Fri, Jan 23, 2004 at 11:40:53AM -0200, Evaldo Gardenali wrote:

> Uhh. correct me if I am wrong, but shouldnt it select the fastest algorithm?

No, if it can choose a function which avoids polluting the cache over
one that doesn't, it will. Even if that means slightly less raw throughput

This comes up time after time, maybe we need a printk in that case ?

Dave

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