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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
Subject: Re: The SX4 challenge
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2008 20:00:42 -0500
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Jeff Garzik wrote:
..
> Thus, the "SX4 challenge" is a challenge to developers to figure out the 
> most optimal configuration for this hardware, given the existing MD and 
> DM work going on.
..

This sort of RAID optimization hardware is not unique to the SX4,
so hopefully we can work out a way to take advantage of similar/different
RAID throughput features of other chipsets too (eventually).

This could be a good topic for discussion/beer in San Jose next month..

Cheers