In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Greg Lehey writes
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>> Hmm, try to keep vinum/RAID5 in the picture when you look at this
>> code, it complicated matters a lot.
>
>I don't think it's that relevant, in fact.

Yes it is, because the CPU needs to read the buffers to calculate
the parity, it cannot just DMA the data out into hardware like a
scsi controller can do.

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Poul-Henning Kamp             FreeBSD coreteam member
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