Followup to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
By author: Dexter Filmore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.dev.raid
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> What type of operation is XOR anyway? Should be ALU, right?
> So - what CPU is best for software raid? One with high integer processing
> power?
>
Something with massive wide vector registers.
PowerPC with Altivec totally kicks ass; x86-64 isn't too bad either.
There are also some processors with builtin RAID accelerators; at
least Intel, Broadcom and AMCC make them.
-hpa
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