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From: Colonel Hell <amritanshu@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Accelerating Linux software raid
Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2005 01:35:17 -0700
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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.