Last year, there were discussions on this list about the possible use of a 'co-processor' (Intel's IOP333) to compute raid 5/6's parity data. We are about to see low cost, multi core cpu chips with very high speed memory bandwidth. In light of this, is there any effective benefit to such devices as the IOP333? Or in other words, is a cheaper (power, heat, etc) cpu with higher memory access speeds, more cost effective than a bridge/bus device (ie hardware) solution (which typically has much lower memory access speeds)? Burn Alting burn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx - 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
