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The Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1

The Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1

Posted Aug 13, 2010 11:18 UTC (Fri) by i3839 (guest, #31386)
In reply to: The Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1 by nix
Parent article: The 2010 Linux Storage and Filesystem Summit, day 1

That's not generally true for SSDs, especially if NCQ is supported. When swapping in latency is usually more important than throughput, so you would want to only swap-in what you need. Maximizing thoughput by reading stuff you don't need is slightly silly.

With write-out 8 channels * 4 NAND chips per channel * 4KB page size = 128KB should be enough to get max write throughput (less for SLC). Buf if you're swapping, you're generally also swapping in, and writing a lot data will kill read latency, so you might want to limit the writes anyway.


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