From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
Cc: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: solid state drive access and context switching
Date: Tue, 4 Dec 2007 20:35:36 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071204203536.2bf6d025@the-village.bc.nu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6934efce0712040954v74cf0b4bk19b49988bc828233@mail.gmail.com>
> microseconds level and an order of magnitude higher bandwidth than
> SATA. Is that fast enough to warrant this more synchronous IO?
See the mtd layer.
> BTW - This trend toward faster, lower latency busses is marching
> forward. 2 examples; the ioDrive from Fusion IO, Micron's RAM-module
> like SSD concept.
Very much so but we can do quite a bit in 10,000 processor cycles ...
Alan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-04 20:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-03 23:06 Chris Friesen
2007-12-03 23:06 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-04 17:54 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 20:35 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2007-12-04 21:54 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 22:45 ` Jörn Engel
2007-12-05 0:03 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 23:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-05 0:08 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-05 0:24 ` Alan Cox
2007-12-05 22:01 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-06 3:51 ` Kyungmin Park
2007-12-04 20:46 ` Chris Friesen
2007-12-04 21:38 ` Jared Hulbert
2007-12-04 20:52 ` Jeff Garzik
2007-12-04 21:02 ` Alan Cox
[not found] <fa.4uUCLsuQFjc4FtQYCBYK6kY9TiU@ifi.uio.no>
2007-12-05 1:11 ` Robert Hancock
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