Re: cleanup the RAID6 P/Q library v3
From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Jun 26 2026 - 21:37:06 EST
On 2026-05-19 01:24, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>
> raid6: rework registration of optimized algorithms
>
> - avx2 instead of avx512 is probably the right thing for no
> benchmarking, but if it was intentional (it wasn't), that should
> be document. So I'll just switch back to the previous version to
> keep the state of the art
It is unlikely to be the right thing *going forward*, though.
The very unfortunate performance inversion is likely model-specific. It is one
of those things where you largely would have to have a list of quirks :(
-hpa