On Jun 27, 2011, at 17:16, Erik Trimble wrote: > Think about how things were done with the i386 and i387. That's what I'm > after. With modern CPU buses like AMD & Intel support, plopping a > "co-processor" into another CPU socket would really, really help.
Given the amount of transistors that are available nowadays I think it'd be simpler to just create a series of SIMD instructions right in/on general CPUs, and skip the whole co-processor angle. There's more and more sensitive data out there, so on-disk crypto could be deployed in more places to help prevent data loss (on both servers and desktops/laptops), and those systems that don't do disk IO probably do network IO, and so would be helped from a TLS/SSL/SSH perspective. If I were AMD I'd seriously be thinking about this, as it'd help boost volume and mindshare for a little while with all the folks doing any kind of web activity would pick up kit for HTTPS—at least until Intel brought out a similar thing. _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
