Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 08 Nov 2002 11:37:19 -0800 | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [Evms-announce] EVMS announcement |
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Alan Cox wrote: > On Wed, 2002-11-06 at 21:58, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >>>ataraid is just driving dumb ide controllers in the way bios raid does >> >>I guess I meant it as a more general question than those specific devices. > > Our current software MD driver doesn't support doing that in hardware. > It has the neccessary infrastructure to consider using hardware xor > engines but I doubt its every actually more efficient to do so on low > end devices.
Probably not. The only case where I can imagine it helps is when you get to push less data across the bus.
-hpa
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