Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753536AbZD3XiF (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:38:05 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753628AbZD3Xhv (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:51 -0400 Received: from srv5.dvmed.net ([207.36.208.214]:53946 "EHLO mail.dvmed.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751920AbZD3Xhu (ORCPT ); Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:37:50 -0400 Message-ID: <49FA3606.50808@garzik.org> Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2009 19:36:38 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.21 (X11/20090320) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: =?UTF-8?B?SsO2cm4gRW5nZWw=?= CC: Artem Bityutskiy , Jared Hulbert , Linus Torvalds , Szabolcs Szakacsits , Alan Cox , Grant Grundler , Linux IDE mailing list , LKML , Jens Axboe , Arjan van de Ven , David Woodhouse Subject: Re: Implementing NVMHCI... References: <20090412091228.GA29937@elte.hu> <6934efce0904141052j3d4f87cey9fc4b802303aa73b@mail.gmail.com> <1239777470.3390.164.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20090430225153.GA14784@logfs.org> In-Reply-To: <20090430225153.GA14784@logfs.org> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Spam-Score: -4.4 (----) X-Spam-Report: SpamAssassin version 3.2.5 on srv5.dvmed.net summary: Content analysis details: (-4.4 points, 5.0 required) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 713 Lines: 20 Jörn Engel wrote: > But like it or not, the market seems to be moving in that direction. > Which means we will have "block devices" that have all the interfaces of > disks and behave much like flash - modulo the crap FTL. One driving goal behind NVMHCI was to avoid disk-originated interfaces, because they are not as well suited to flash storage. The NVMHCI command set (distinguished from NVMHCI, the silicon) is specifically targetted towards flash. Jeff -- 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/