Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753274Ab2KIMZQ (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:16 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43191 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751472Ab2KIMZL (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Nov 2012 07:25:11 -0500 User-Agent: K-9 Mail for Android In-Reply-To: <20121109225025.13a846ca@notabene.brown> References: <1352411264-5156-1-git-send-email-james.t.kukunas@linux.intel.com> <1352460945.4387.7.camel@mattotaupa> <20121109225025.13a846ca@notabene.brown> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized recovery functions From: "H. Peter Anvin" Date: Fri, 09 Nov 2012 13:24:56 +0100 To: NeilBrown CC: Paul Menzel , Jim Kukunas , Linux Raid , Linux Kernel Message-ID: <71d4fc0f-f147-4cc6-8626-d1f255a2f7f7@email.android.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1707 Lines: 60 Yes, consider it an implicit Acked-by. NeilBrown wrote: >On Fri, 09 Nov 2012 12:39:05 +0100 "H. Peter Anvin" >wrote: > >> Sorry, we cannot share those at this time since the hardwarenis not >yet released. > >Can I take that to imply "Acked-by: "H. Peter Anvin" " >?? > >It would be nice to have at least a statement like: >These patches have been tested both with the user-space testing tool >and in >a RAID6 md array and the pass all test. While we cannot release >performance >numbers as the hardwere is not released, we can confirm that on that >hardware > the performance with these patches is faster than without. > >I guess I should be able to assume that - surely the patches would not >be >posted if it were not true... But I like to avoid assuming when I can. > >Thanks, >NeilBrown > > >> >> Paul Menzel wrote: >> >> >Dear Jim, >> > >> > >> >Am Donnerstag, den 08.11.2012, 13:47 -0800 schrieb Jim Kukunas: >> >> Optimize RAID6 recovery functions to take advantage of >> >> the 256-bit YMM integer instructions introduced in AVX2. >> > >> >in my experiencing optimizations always have to be back up by >> >benchmarks. Could you add those to the commit message please. >> > >> >> Signed-off-by: Jim Kukunas >> > >> >[…] >> > >> > >> >Thanks, >> > >> >Paul >> -- Sent from my mobile phone. Please excuse brevity and lack of formatting. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/