From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S267973AbUHPWLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:11:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S267975AbUHPWLD (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:11:03 -0400 Received: from imladris.demon.co.uk ([193.237.130.41]:40709 "EHLO phoenix.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267973AbUHPWK7 (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Aug 2004 18:10:59 -0400 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2004 23:10:53 +0100 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Andrew Morton Cc: Alan Cox , ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Linux SATA RAID FAQ Message-ID: <20040816231053.A15749@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Andrew Morton , Alan Cox , ecki-news2004-05@lina.inka.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <1092315392.21994.52.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20040816150641.108c66a6.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5.1i In-Reply-To: <20040816150641.108c66a6.akpm@osdl.org>; from akpm@osdl.org on Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:06:41PM -0700 X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by phoenix.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Aug 16, 2004 at 03:06:41PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > hch questioned why we need the driver at all: just put the card in JBOD > mode and use s/w raid drivers. But the thing does have an on-board CPU and > the idea is that by offloading to that, the data transits the bus just a > single time. The developers are off doing some comparative benchmarking at > present. Alan's driver can use the chip in raid mode.