Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 9 Jul 2019 20:27:09 +0200 (CEST) | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v2 1/7] rslib: Add tests for the encoder and decoder |
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On Tue, 9 Jul 2019, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Ferdinand, > > On Thu, Jun 20, 2019 at 4:13 PM Ferdinand Blomqvist > <ferdinand.blomqvist@gmail.com> wrote: > > A Reed-Solomon code with minimum distance d can correct any error and > > erasure pattern that satisfies 2 * #error + #erasures < d. If the > > error correction capacity is exceeded, then correct decoding cannot be > > guaranteed. The decoder must, however, return a valid codeword or report > > failure. > > > Note that the tests take a couple of minutes to complete. > > On which hardware? ;-) > > JFTR, the test succeeded on m68k, after 6 hours and 12 minutes of runtime > on an emulated Atari Falcon (ARAnyM hosted by an i7-4770). > So far I have no plans to run it on bare metal.
It took about 4 minutes on a 10 year old lame desktop and was way faster on one of the big irons.
Thanks,
tglx
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