Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 11 Jan 2003 16:45:04 +0100 | From | Lionel Bouton <> | Subject | Re: choice of raid5 checksumming algorithm wrong ? |
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Soeren Sonnenburg wrote:
>Hi! > >I really do wonder whether the displayed message is wrong or why it >always chooses the slowest checksumming function (happens with 2.4.19 - >21pre3) > > SSE is always preferred because unlike other checksumming code it doesn't use the processor caches when reading/writing data/checksum. This is slower (if several GB/s can be considered slow) for the checksumming but far better for the overall system performance.
LB.
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