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2020-03-25	.gitignore: add SPDX License Identifier	Masahiro Yamada	1	-0/+1
	Add SPDX License Identifier to all .gitignore files. Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
2018-03-20	lib/raid6/altivec: Add vpermxor implementation for raid6 Q syndrome	Matt Brown	1	-0/+1
	This patch uses the vpermxor instruction to optimise the raid6 Q syndrome. This instruction was made available with POWER8, ISA version 2.07. It allows for both vperm and vxor instructions to be done in a single instruction. This has been tested for correctness on a ppc64le vm with a basic RAID6 setup containing 5 drives. The performance benchmarks are from the raid6test in the /lib/raid6/test directory. These results are from an IBM Firestone machine with ppc64le architecture. The benchmark results show a 35% speed increase over the best existing algorithm for powerpc (altivec). The raid6test has also been run on a big-endian ppc64 vm to ensure it also works for big-endian architectures. Performance benchmarks: raid6: altivecx4 gen() 18773 MB/s raid6: altivecx8 gen() 19438 MB/s raid6: vpermxor4 gen() 25112 MB/s raid6: vpermxor8 gen() 26279 MB/s Signed-off-by: Matt Brown <matthew.brown.dev@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Daniel Axtens <dja@axtens.net> [mpe: Add VPERMXOR macro so we can build with old binutils] Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2016-08-29	RAID/s390: add SIMD implementation for raid6 gen/xor	Martin Schwidefsky	1	-0/+1
	Using vector registers is slightly faster: raid6: vx128x8 gen() 19705 MB/s raid6: vx128x8 xor() 11886 MB/s raid6: using algorithm vx128x8 gen() 19705 MB/s raid6: .... xor() 11886 MB/s, rmw enabled vs the software algorithms: raid6: int64x1 gen() 3018 MB/s raid6: int64x1 xor() 1429 MB/s raid6: int64x2 gen() 4661 MB/s raid6: int64x2 xor() 3143 MB/s raid6: int64x4 gen() 5392 MB/s raid6: int64x4 xor() 3509 MB/s raid6: int64x8 gen() 4441 MB/s raid6: int64x8 xor() 3207 MB/s raid6: using algorithm int64x4 gen() 5392 MB/s raid6: .... xor() 3509 MB/s, rmw enabled Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
2013-07-08	lib/raid6: add ARM-NEON accelerated syndrome calculation	Ard Biesheuvel	1	-0/+1
	Rebased/reworked a patch contributed by Rob Herring that uses NEON intrinsics to perform the RAID-6 syndrome calculations. It uses the existing unroll.awk code to generate several unrolled versions of which the best performing one is selected at boot time. Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel@linaro.org> Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <nico@linaro.org> Cc: hpa@linux.intel.com
2010-08-30	Move .gitignore from drivers/md to lib/raid6	NeilBrown	1	-0/+4
	Another missing bit of the raid6 -> /lib move. Reported-by: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>