Re: solid state drive access and context switching

[Alan Cox]

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

> 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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