mpsys

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1. 1.▲
   by mpsys 7y ago

   Moving the abstraction to hardware level gets rid of the multi-layer indirections that maps the key-value pairs to actual physical page. It replaces 3 layers of mappings with 1 layer. That reduces CPU load caused by the multi-layer indirect
2. 2.▲
   by mpsys 7y ago

   TRUE!
3. 3.▲
   by mpsys 7y ago

   KV-SSD replaces the filesystem with Abstract Device Interface(ADI), that sits between the KV API exposed to the applications directly and the KV device driver. According my understanding, although some modern filesystems combines RAID and
4. 4.▲
   by mpsys 7y ago

   It is accessible directly to applications through the SNIA KVS API (and Samsung has it's own API as well). There is no filesystem in the middle, if you are using the KV-controller.
5. 5.▲
   by mpsys 7y ago

   SNIA KV stack gets rid of the filesystem, and the disk is directly accessible by applications through the API. Hence, it won't be generally useful. The target is a very specific segment of the SSD market.