Re: Hardware vs. Software Raid Speed

[Mario 'BitKoenig' Holbe]

Tejun Heo <htejun@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> And, yeah, they're all software RAID.  Also, there isn't much to be 
> gained from making RAID0/1 hardware.  The software overhead isn't that 

The CPU cycles in fact don't usually matter. The I/O overhead (on the
PCI bus) due to multiple transfers of the (more or less) same data is
typically more interesting.


regards
   Mario
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