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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

  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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