From: "Jared Hulbert" <jaredeh@gmail.com>
To: "Alan Cox" <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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 16:08:07 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <6934efce0712041608w2e25587n6b2d738fa0265d9d@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20071204232449.6148e152@the-village.bc.nu>
On Dec 4, 2007 3:24 PM, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote:
> > Right. The trend is to hide the nastiness of NAND technology changes
> > behind controllers. In general I think this is a good thing.
>
> You miss the point - any controller you hide it behind almost inevitably
> adds enough latency you don't want to use it synchronously.
I think I get it. We keep saying that it's the latency is too high.
I agree that most technologies out there have latencies that are too
high. Again I ask the question, what latencies do we have to hit
before the sync options become worth it?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-12-05 0:08 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
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 [this message]
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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