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Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains


A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6

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