From: Wols Lists <antlists@youngman.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
Boaz Harrosh <boaz@plexistor.com>
Cc: Matthew Wilcox <willy@linux.intel.com>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, axboe@kernel.dk, riel@redhat.com,
hch@infradead.org, linux-nvdimm@ml01.01.org,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-raid@vger.kernel.org,
mgorman@suse.de, linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Linux-nvdimm] [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer
Date: Fri, 20 Mar 2015 17:32:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <550C5993.9030104@youngman.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20150319125917.6cc2bf02687aab542027d8ac@linux-foundation.org>
On 19/03/15 19:59, Andrew Morton wrote:
> This is all contingent upon the prevalence of machines which have vast
> amounts of nv memory and relatively small amounts of regular memory.
> How confident are we that this really is the future?
Somewhat off-topic, but it's also the past. I can't help thinking of the
early Pick machines, which treated backing store as one giant permanent
virtual memory. Back when 300Mb hard drives were HUGE.
Cheers,
Wol
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-03-20 17:32 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 55+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-03-16 20:25 [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 1/7] block: add helpers for accessing a bio_vec page Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 2/7] block: convert bio_vec.bv_page to bv_pfn Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 23:05 ` Al Viro
2015-03-17 13:02 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-17 15:53 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 3/7] dma-mapping: allow archs to optionally specify a ->map_pfn() operation Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-18 11:21 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-18 11:21 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 4/7] scatterlist: use sg_phys() Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 5/7] scatterlist: support "page-less" (__pfn_t only) entries Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` [RFC PATCH 6/7] x86: support dma_map_pfn() Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:25 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:26 ` [RFC PATCH 7/7] block: base support for pfn i/o Dan Williams
2015-03-16 20:26 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-18 10:47 ` [RFC PATCH 0/7] evacuate struct page from the block layer Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-18 10:47 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-18 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-18 13:06 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-18 14:38 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-18 14:38 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-20 15:56 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-22 11:53 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-18 15:35 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-18 15:35 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-18 20:26 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-19 13:43 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-19 15:54 ` [Linux-nvdimm] " Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-19 19:59 ` Andrew Morton
2015-03-19 20:59 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-22 17:22 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-20 17:32 ` Wols Lists [this message]
2015-03-22 10:30 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-19 18:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-19 19:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-22 16:46 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-20 16:21 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-20 20:31 ` Matthew Wilcox
2015-03-20 21:08 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-22 17:06 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-22 17:22 ` Dan Williams
2015-03-22 17:39 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-20 21:17 ` Wols Lists
2015-03-22 16:24 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-22 15:51 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-23 15:19 ` Rik van Riel
2015-03-23 19:30 ` Christoph Hellwig
2015-03-24 9:41 ` Boaz Harrosh
2015-03-24 16:57 ` Rik van Riel
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