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Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:54:38 +0200
From: Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
To: Bruce Harada <bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp>
Cc: Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: raid5 autoselecting a slower checksum function
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> [bharada@coral.ocn.ne.jp]
> 
> On Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:17:00 +0300 (EEST)
> Meelis Roos <mroos@linux.ee> wrote:
> 
> <snip>
> 
> > Why doesn't it select p5_mmx if it is 37% faster than pIII_sse?
> 
> This has come up before - see :
> 
> http://hypermail.idiosynkrasia.net/linux-kernel/archived/2003/week01/1894.html

Fair enough, but wouldn't it be more appropriate if the kernel printed
a message like "SSE present, good.  No need to try the other checksumming
methods" in this case?

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Tomas Szepe <szepe@pinerecords.com>
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