Re: check if hardware checksumming works or not

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Hi Alberto,

On 5 June 2016 at 15:37, Alberto Bursi <alberto.bursi@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Hi, I'm running Debian ARM on a Marvell Kirkwood-based 2-disk NAS.
>
> Kirkwood SoCs have a XOR engine that can hardware-accelerate crc32c
> checksumming, and from what I see in kernel mailing lists it seems to have a
> linux driver and should be supported.
>
> I wanted to ask if there is a way to test if it is working at all.
>
> How do I force btrfs to use software checksumming for testing purposes?

Is there a mv_xor.ko module you can blacklist?  I'm not familiar with
the platform, but I imagine you'll have to blacklist it and reboot,
because I'm guessing the module can't be removed once it's loaded.

'just a guess,
Nicholas
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