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Subject: Re: [PATCH] lib/raid6: Add AVX2 optimized xor_syndrome functions
To: Shaohua Li <shli@kernel.org>,
        Gayatri Kammela <gayatri.kammela@intel.com>
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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com>
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On 10/05/16 16:11, Shaohua Li wrote:
> On Fri, Sep 30, 2016 at 11:14:49AM -0700, Gayatri Kammela wrote:
>> Implement the AVX2 optimization of RAID6 xor_syndrome functions which is
>> simply based on sse2.c written by hpa.
> 
> Applied, thanks! Could you please add xor_syndrome for sse1/mmx too?
> 

Not that it would be a bad thing to have, but do you think anyone
actually cares?  We are talking hardware over a decade old.

	-hpa