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From: Colonel Hell <amritanshu@gmail.com>
To: dan.j.williams@gmail.com
Cc: linux-raid@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Accelerating Linux software raid
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:35:17 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4ecc821305091001356c9ceb1c@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <e9c3a7c2050906112410dc1d16@mail.gmail.com>

Hi,
Dan:
>the md driver that allows it to take advantage of raid acceleration
>hardware.  I/O processors like the Intel IOP333
>(http://www.intel.com/design/iio/docs/iop333.htm) contain an xor
>engine for raid5 and raid6 calculations, but currently the md driver
>does not fully utilize these resources.
does that mean offloading RAID to the IOP board or simply using the
XOR engine in the  IOP ?
if you have some benchmarks which shows that under certain workload md
is not IOlimited(due to excessive XOR computation)  and then concluded
that offloading XOR is a gud idea , then it must be :) ...

I was going thru IOP manual myself and saw that they have a raid6
accelaretor too :)

Let me know.
-Johri.

  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-10  8:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-06 18:24 Accelerating Linux software raid Dan Williams
2005-09-06 21:52 ` Molle Bestefich
2005-09-10  4:51 ` Mark Hahn
2005-09-10 12:58   ` Ric Wheeler
2005-09-10 15:35     ` Mark Hahn
2005-09-10 19:13       ` Dan Williams
2005-09-11  2:06       ` Ric Wheeler
2005-09-11  2:35         ` Konstantin Olchanski
2005-09-11 12:00           ` Ric Wheeler
2005-09-11 20:19             ` Mark Hahn
2005-09-10  8:35 ` Colonel Hell [this message]
2005-09-11 23:14 ` Neil Brown

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