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  • Why is isal limited to just three archs?

    From Nilesh Patra@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 16 09:10:01 2021
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    Hi Ondřej,

    I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64.
    Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend support to other archs?

    Actually, a -med team package fastp has started to depend on libisal-dev, and this
    now is limited to the few archs isal supports. So it would be really nice if isal
    can build on more archs.

    Please do let me know.

    Nilesh



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  • From Thomas Goirand@21:1/5 to Nilesh Patra on Sat Oct 16 10:50:02 2021
    On 10/16/21 9:09 AM, Nilesh Patra wrote:
    Hi Ondřej,

    I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64.
    Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend
    support to other archs?

    Actually, a -med team package fastp has started to depend on
    libisal-dev, and this
    now is limited to the few archs isal supports. So it would be really
    nice if isal
    can build on more archs.

    Please do let me know.

    Nilesh

    Hi,

    Did you look into the source package? isal is written in assembly
    language...

    Cheers,

    Thomas Goirand (zigo)

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  • From Gregor Riepl@21:1/5 to All on Sat Oct 16 12:50:01 2021
    Did you look into the source package? isal is written in assembly
    language...

    That doesn't seem quite right.
    The readme states:

    other:

    Compiler: Portable base functions are available that build with most C compilers.

    And it does look like there are corresponding .c implementations, at
    least for some of the functions.

    Not sure about source or binary compatibility, though.

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  • From Graham Inggs@21:1/5 to Thomas Goirand on Sat Oct 16 12:40:01 2021
    Hi

    On Sat, 16 Oct 2021 at 10:42, Thomas Goirand <[email protected]> wrote:

    On 10/16/21 9:09 AM, Nilesh Patra wrote:
    Hi Ondřej,

    I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64.
    Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend
    support to other archs?

    Actually, a -med team package fastp has started to depend on
    libisal-dev, and this
    now is limited to the few archs isal supports. So it would be really
    nice if isal
    can build on more archs.

    Please do let me know.

    Nilesh

    Hi,

    Did you look into the source package? isal is written in assembly
    language...

    Cheers,

    Thomas Goirand (zigo)

    I see at least an erasure_code/ppc64le directory.

    I did a quick test build in Ubuntu and the package built and passed
    its tests on armhf, ppc64el and riscv64, failing only because of
    missing symbols. Perhaps the reduced libisal2.symbols.arm64 can be
    used for other architectures as well?

    Regards
    Graham

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  • From Nilesh Patra@21:1/5 to Graham Inggs on Sun Oct 17 14:00:04 2021
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    Hi Thomas,

    On 10/16/21 4:07 PM, Graham Inggs wrote:
    Hi,

    Did you look into the source package? isal is written in assembly
    language...
    I see at least an erasure_code/ppc64le directory.

    I did a quick test build in Ubuntu and the package built and passed
    its tests on armhf, ppc64el and riscv64, failing only because of
    missing symbols. Perhaps the reduced libisal2.symbols.arm64 can be
    used for other architectures as well?

    After Graham's tests, would it be possible to extend the arch list?
    I could help test it across more archs if you would like -- porter boxes to rescue :)

    Nilesh



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  • From Ondrej Novy@21:1/5 to All on Thu Oct 28 19:20:02 2021
    Hi Nilesh,

    so 16. 10. 2021 v 9:09 odesílatel Nilesh Patra <[email protected]> napsal:

    I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64.
    Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend support
    to other archs?


    When I packed libisal, only "customer" was liberasurecode. Liberasurecode supports many backends and supports all archs. And because libisal is
    highly optimized for ARM and amd64, I built it only for these archs. Other platforms are supported, but not optimized. liberasurecode directly should perform better.

    Actually, a -med team package fastp has started to depend on libisal-dev


    And because there is other "customer", I will try to build it for all
    archs.

    Thanks.

    --
    Best regards
    Ondřej Nový

    <div dir="ltr"><div>Hi Nilesh,</div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">so 16. 10. 2021 v 9:09 odesílatel Nilesh Patra &lt;<a href="mailto:[email protected]">[email protected]</a>&gt; napsal:</div><blockquote
    class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
    I see that isal package is limited to amd64, arm64 and kfreebsd-amd64.<br>
    Is there a particular reason for this? -- Is it possible to extend support to other archs?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>When I packed libisal, only &quot;customer&quot; was liberasurecode. Liberasurecode supports many backends and supports all
    archs. And because libisal is highly optimized for ARM and amd64, I built it only for these archs. Other platforms are supported, but not optimized. liberasurecode directly should perform better.</div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="
    margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1