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From: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Grant Grundler <grundler@google.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux IDE mailing list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI...
Date: Sun, 12 Apr 2009 13:29:52 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49E22510.90608@garzik.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49E1F967.9090106@rtr.ca>

Mark Lord wrote:
> Alan Cox wrote:
> ..
>> Alternatively you go for read-modify-write (nasty performance hit
>> especially for RAID or a log structured fs).
> ..
> 
> Initially, at least, I'd guess that this NVM-HCI thing is all about
> built-in flash memory on motherboards, to hold the "instant-boot"
> software that hardware companies (eg. ASUS) are rapidly growing fond of.
> 
> At present, that means a mostly read-only Linux installation,
> though MS for sure are hoping for Moore's Law to kick in and
> provide sufficient space for a copy of Vista there or something.

Yeah... instant boot, and "trusted boot" (booting a signed image), 
storage of useful details like boot drive layouts, etc.

I'm sure we can come up with other funs uses, too...

	Jeff





  reply	other threads:[~2009-04-12 17:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 45+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-04-11 17:33 Implementing NVMHCI Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 19:32 ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 19:52   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-11 20:21     ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:49     ` Grant Grundler
2009-04-11 22:33       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12  5:08         ` Leslie Rhorer
2009-04-11 23:25       ` Alan Cox
2009-04-11 23:51         ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12  0:49           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12  1:59             ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-12  1:15         ` david
2009-04-12  3:13           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 14:23         ` Mark Lord
2009-04-12 17:29           ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2009-04-11 19:54   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-11 21:08     ` John Stoffel
2009-04-11 21:31       ` John Stoffel
     [not found] <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu>
2009-04-12 15:14 ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-12 15:20   ` Alan Cox
2009-04-12 16:15     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:11       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13  6:32         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-13 15:10           ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-13 15:38             ` James Bottomley
2009-04-14  7:22             ` Andi Kleen
2009-04-14 10:07               ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14  9:59             ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 10:23               ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 10:37                 ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 11:45                   ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-14 11:58                     ` Szabolcs Szakacsits
2009-04-17 22:45                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-04-14 12:08                     ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-14 12:21                       ` Jeff Garzik
2009-04-25  8:26                 ` Pavel Machek
2009-04-12 15:41   ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 17:02     ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-12 17:20       ` Linus Torvalds
2009-04-12 18:35         ` Robert Hancock
2009-04-13 11:18         ` Avi Kivity
2009-04-12 17:23     ` James Bottomley
     [not found]     ` <6934efce0904141052j3d4f87cey9fc4b802303aa73b@mail.gmail.com>
2009-04-15  6:37       ` Artem Bityutskiy
2009-04-30 22:51         ` Jörn Engel
2009-04-30 23:36           ` Jeff Garzik

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