Making swapping scalable
Making swapping scalable
Posted Nov 4, 2016 15:14 UTC (Fri) by kamalneet (guest, #112162)Parent article: Making swapping scalable
> the wear-leveling requirements of SSDs are better met by spreading the traffic across the device.
Wouldn't the SSD firmware do the spreading even if the OS writes mostly to the front of the device address space?
Posted Nov 7, 2016 3:51 UTC (Mon)
by JanC_ (guest, #34940)
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Making swapping scalable
The SSD firmware needs to do its own bookkeeping for that, so it's slower to write to the same location than to write to a reserved-but-unused location.