RE: [PATCH 00/16] raid acceleration and asynchronous offload api for 2.6.22

Williams, Dan J
2007-05-02T16:17:20Z

> From: Justin Piszcz [mailto:jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com]
> I have not been following this closely, must you have an
> CONFIG_INTEL_IOP_ADMA piece of hardware and/or chipset to use this
> feature or can regular desktop users take hold of it as well?
>
Currently this feature is available on the iop series of processors,
e.g. http://www.intel.com/design/iio/iop348.htm

And there is a driver in the works to support the 440spe platform
(http://marc.info/?l=linux-raid&m=117400143317440&w=2)

Desktops currently take advantage of architecture specific SIMD
instructions to accelerate xor calculations.

> Justin.

Dan