Messages in this thread | | | Subject | RE: [PATCH 00/16] raid acceleration and asynchronous offload api for 2.6.22 | Date | Wed, 2 May 2007 09:17:13 -0700 | From | "Williams, Dan J" <> |
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> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com] > 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.
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