RAID: add tilegx SIMD implementation of raid6

This change adds TILE-Gx SIMD instructions to the software raid
(md), modeling the Altivec implementation. This is only for Syndrome
generation; there is more that could be done to improve recovery,
as in the recent Intel SSE3 recovery implementation.

The code unrolls 8 times; this turns out to be the best on tilegx
hardware among the set 1, 2, 4, 8 or 16.  The code reads one
cache-line of data from each disk, stores P and Q then goes to the
next cache-line.

The test code in sys/linux/lib/raid6/test reports 2008 MB/s data
read rate for syndrome generation using 18 disks (16 data and 2
parity). It was 1512 MB/s before this SIMD optimizations. This is
running on 1 core with all the data in cache.

This is based on the paper The Mathematics of RAID-6.
(http://kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/hpa/raid6.pdf).

Signed-off-by: Ken Steele <ken@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
Signed-off-by: NeilBrown <neilb@suse.de>

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/linux/raid/pq.h b/include/linux/raid/pq.h
index 8dfaa2c..6d5df8a 100644
--- a/include/linux/raid/pq.h
+++ b/include/linux/raid/pq.h
@@ -101,6 +101,7 @@ extern const struct raid6_calls raid6_altivec8;
 extern const struct raid6_calls raid6_avx2x1;
 extern const struct raid6_calls raid6_avx2x2;
 extern const struct raid6_calls raid6_avx2x4;
+extern const struct raid6_calls raid6_tilegx8;
 
 struct raid6_recov_calls {
 	void (*data2)(int, size_t, int, int, void **);