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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?

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Making swapping scalable

Posted Nov 7, 2016 3:51 UTC (Mon) by JanC_ (guest, #34940) [Link]

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.


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