Re: solid state drive access and context switching

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To: Jeff Garzik <jeff@...>

Cc: Chris Friesen <cfriesen@...>, <linux-kernel@...>

Subject: Re: solid state drive access and context switching

Date: Tuesday, December 4, 2007 - 5:02 pm

On Tue, 04 Dec 2007 15:52:20 -0500
Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org> wrote:

quoted text> Alan Cox wrote:
> > For things like SATA based devices they aren't that fast yet. 
> 
> You forget the Gigabyte i-RAM.
> 
> For others:  the i-RAM is a SATA-based device that plugs into a PCI slot 
> on your motherboard (for power), providing RAM+battery backup as fast as 
> your SATA bus and DIMMs will go.

Actually even allowing for the iRAM the SATA stuff is way too slow to be
worth using synchronously. The latency is a killer.
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solid state drive access and context switching, Chris Friesen, (Mon Dec 3, 7:06 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Alan Cox, (Mon Dec 3, 7:06 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jeff Garzik, (Tue Dec 4, 4:52 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Alan Cox, (Tue Dec 4, 5:02 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Tue Dec 4, 1:54 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Chris Friesen, (Tue Dec 4, 4:46 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Tue Dec 4, 5:38 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Alan Cox, (Tue Dec 4, 4:35 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Tue Dec 4, 5:54 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Alan Cox, (Tue Dec 4, 7:24 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Tue Dec 4, 8:08 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Alan Cox, (Tue Dec 4, 8:24 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Wed Dec 5, 6:01 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Kyungmin Park, (Wed Dec 5, 11:51 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jörn, (Tue Dec 4, 6:45 pm)

Re: solid state drive access and context switching, Jared Hulbert, (Tue Dec 4, 8:03 pm)


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