From: Trent Piepho <xyzzy@speakeasy.org>
To: Jonathan Campbell <jon@nerdgrounds.com>
Cc: Linux Kernel List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
devel@driverdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: Vramfs: filesystem driver to utilize extra RAM on VGA devices
Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.64.0901272257460.25242@t2.domain.actdsltmp> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <497E4531.20800@nerdgrounds.com>
On Mon, 26 Jan 2009, Jonathan Campbell wrote:
> one, that today's graphics cards have relatively obscene amounts of RAM on
> them even if you're not using it. If you're running it as a server and not
> using it for 3D graphics, why not mount the VRAM on the graphics card as a
> filesystem and store things there to get some extra space?
How fast is it? For instance, what are your bonnie++ scores for vramfs vs
tmpfs vs something on disk?
It seems like you could at the very least put a swap file on it that's
faster than one on disk.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-01-28 7:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-26 23:20 Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-26 23:36 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-26 23:50 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-29 17:04 ` Peter W. Morreale
2009-01-29 17:30 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-29 17:38 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-30 3:19 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-30 4:46 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-30 5:20 ` Willy Tarreau
2009-01-30 5:25 ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-01-27 2:59 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-27 4:44 ` Eric Anholt
2009-01-27 17:37 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-27 21:23 ` Eric Anholt
2009-01-28 6:36 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-28 7:05 ` Dave Airlie
2009-01-28 9:03 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-28 9:42 ` Dave Airlie
2009-01-27 5:07 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-27 18:18 ` Mark Knecht
[not found] ` <497F60A3.6020608@nerdgrounds.com>
2009-01-27 20:49 ` Mark Knecht
2009-01-27 21:15 ` Jonathan Campbell
2009-01-28 6:59 ` Trent Piepho [this message]
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=Pine.LNX.4.64.0901272257460.25242@t2.domain.actdsltmp \
--to=xyzzy@speakeasy.org \
--cc=devel@driverdev.osuosl.org \
--cc=jon@nerdgrounds.com \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox
all inboxes | Powered by JetHome®