From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: which CPU for XOR?
Date: Fri, 9 Jun 2006 13:22:57 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <e6clb1$dfg$1@terminus.zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: 200606091349.24109.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de
Followup to: <200606091349.24109.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>
By author: Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
>
> What type of operation is XOR anyway? Should be ALU, right?
> So - what CPU is best for software raid? One with high integer processing
> power?
>
Something with massive wide vector registers.
PowerPC with Altivec totally kicks ass; x86-64 isn't too bad either.
There are also some processors with builtin RAID accelerators; at
least Intel, Broadcom and AMCC make them.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-09 20:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-09 11:49 which CPU for XOR? Dexter Filmore
2006-06-09 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2006-06-13 18:40 ` Bill Davidsen
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