"Williams, Dan J" <dan.j.williams@xxxxxxxxx> writes: >> 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. How about hard drive controllers with RAID accelleration features (but not full hardware RAID capability) such as the Promise SX4 (http://linux-ata.org/faq-sata-raid.html#sx4)? -- ilmari "A disappointingly low fraction of the human race is, at any given time, on fire." - Stig Sandbeck Mathisen - 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
