Followup to: <200606091349.24109.Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx> By author: Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@xxxxxx> In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid > > What type of operation is XOR anyway? Should be ALU, right? > So - what CPU is best for software raid? One with high integer processing > power? > Something with massive wide vector registers. PowerPC with Altivec totally kicks ass; x86-64 isn't too bad either. There are also some processors with builtin RAID accelerators; at least Intel, Broadcom and AMCC make them. -hpa - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-raid" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
