Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754119AbZA1HAV (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:00:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751666AbZA1HAI (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:00:08 -0500 Received: from mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net ([69.17.117.10]:41987 "EHLO mail8.sea5.speakeasy.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751155AbZA1HAH (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:00:07 -0500 Date: Tue, 27 Jan 2009 22:59:59 -0800 (PST) From: Trent Piepho X-X-Sender: xyzzy@t2.domain.actdsltmp To: Jonathan Campbell cc: Linux Kernel List , devel@driverdev.osuosl.org Subject: Re: Vramfs: filesystem driver to utilize extra RAM on VGA devices In-Reply-To: <497E4531.20800@nerdgrounds.com> Message-ID: References: <497E4531.20800@nerdgrounds.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 787 Lines: 16 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. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/