Messages in this thread | | | From | (H. Peter Anvin) | Subject | Re: PATCH: Altivec support for RAID-6 | Date | Fri, 19 Nov 2004 05:05:54 +0000 (UTC) |
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Followup to: <69304d1104111812234656a606@mail.gmail.com> By author: Antonio Vargas <windenntw@gmail.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > hpa, are you aware of any other routines which should benefit from altivec? >
Presumably the XOR code used by RAID-5, and quite possibly some of the cryptography stuff. Unlike most SIMD instruction sets, it should be possible to write AES using Altivec.
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