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Does anyone know what this improvement actually is? The article makes it sound like their card is doing DMA to pinned user allocations, but that doesn't sound t
by tmurray 15y ago
Does anyone know what this improvement actually is? The article makes it sound like their card is doing DMA to pinned user allocations, but that doesn't sound too revolutionary. I know next to nothing about storage controllers, but see the last many years of high-speed networking for an entire ecosystem based around that concept.
- sp332 15y agoInstead of using the flash as a "tier" of storage, like a normal hard drive accessed via standard OS primitives, it looks like they now provide an API to make the storage available to programs. The new API has much lower overhead and latency.
- wmf 15y agoOS bypass hasn't really been done for storage, so that's new in some sense.
- 4ad 15y agoIt has been done since forever.