From: Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
To: Dexter Filmore <Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: which CPU for XOR?
Date: Tue, 13 Jun 2006 14:40:50 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <448F06B2.6000802@tmr.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200606091349.24109.Dexter.Filmore@gmx.de>
Dexter Filmore wrote:
>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?
>
Unless you're running really low on CPU, it probably doesn't matter...
you run out of memory bandwidth on large data (larger than cache)
anyway. That's my take on it.
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bill davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>
CTO TMR Associates, Inc
Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-13 18:40 UTC|newest]
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2006-06-09 11:49 which CPU for XOR? Dexter Filmore
2006-06-09 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-06-13 18:40 ` Bill Davidsen [this message]
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