> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] > I have not been following this closely, must you have an > CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA piece of hardware and/or chipset to use this > feature or can regular desktop users take hold of it as well? > Currently this feature is available on the iop series of processors, e.g. http://www.intel.com/design/iio/iop348.htm And there is a driver in the works to support the 440spe platform (http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=117400143317440&w=2) Desktops currently take advantage of architecture specific SIMD instructions to accelerate xor calculations. > Justin. Dan - 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