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| author | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-07-14 21:20:37 +0200 |
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| committer | Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com> | 2009-08-30 04:09:27 +0200 |
| commit | 0a82a6239beecc95db6e05fe43ee62d16b381d38 (patch) | |
| tree | 524f6417ae8128f5b1da322872e860bd4af5840d /Documentation/crypto | |
| parent | async_tx: add support for asynchronous GF multiplication (diff) | |
| download | linux-0a82a6239beecc95db6e05fe43ee62d16b381d38.tar.xz linux-0a82a6239beecc95db6e05fe43ee62d16b381d38.zip | |
async_tx: add support for asynchronous RAID6 recovery operations
async_raid6_2data_recov() recovers two data disk failures
async_raid6_datap_recov() recovers a data disk and the P disk
These routines are a port of the synchronous versions found in
drivers/md/raid6recov.c. The primary difference is breaking out the xor
operations into separate calls to async_xor. Two helper routines are
introduced to perform scalar multiplication where needed.
async_sum_product() multiplies two sources by scalar coefficients and
then sums (xor) the result. async_mult() simply multiplies a single
source by a scalar.
This implemention also includes, in contrast to the original
synchronous-only code, special case handling for the 4-disk and 5-disk
array cases. In these situations the default N-disk algorithm will
present 0-source or 1-source operations to dma devices. To cover for
dma devices where the minimum source count is 2 we implement 4-disk and
5-disk handling in the recovery code.
[ Impact: asynchronous raid6 recovery routines for 2data and datap cases ]
Cc: Yuri Tikhonov <yur@emcraft.com>
Cc: Ilya Yanok <yanok@emcraft.com>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
Cc: David Woodhouse <David.Woodhouse@intel.com>
Reviewed-by: Andre Noll <maan@systemlinux.org>
Acked-by: Maciej Sosnowski <maciej.sosnowski@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Dan Williams <dan.j.williams@intel.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/crypto')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt | 4 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt index 0e48e054d69a..ba046b8fa92f 100644 --- a/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt +++ b/Documentation/crypto/async-tx-api.txt @@ -67,6 +67,10 @@ xor_val - xor a series of source buffers and set a flag if the pq - generate the p+q (raid6 syndrome) from a series of source buffers pq_val - validate that a p and or q buffer are in sync with a given series of sources +datap - (raid6_datap_recov) recover a raid6 data block and the p block + from the given sources +2data - (raid6_2data_recov) recover 2 raid6 data blocks from the given + sources 3.3 Descriptor management: The return value is non-NULL and points to a 'descriptor' when the operation |