Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-25 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 4:56 AM, Matias Bjorling wrote: > On 03/24/2014 08:08 PM, David Lang wrote: >> On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Matias Bjorling wrote: >> >>> On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: Hi Matias, This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you h

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-24 Thread Matias Bjorling
On 03/24/2014 08:08 PM, David Lang wrote: > On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Matias Bjorling wrote: > >> On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: >>> Hi Matias, >>> >>> This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you >>> have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? >> >>

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-24 Thread David Lang
On Fri, 21 Mar 2014, Matias Bjorling wrote: On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: Hi Matias, This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? Hi Joe, The most easily available platform is OpenSSD (http://w

Re: [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-21 Thread Matias Bjorling
On 03/21/2014 08:32 AM, Richard Weinberger wrote: > On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote: > > This sounds very interesting! > > Is there also a way to expose the flash directly as MTD device? > I'm thinking of UBI. Maybe both projects can benefit from each others. > Hi Richa

Re: [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-21 Thread Richard Weinberger
On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 7:32 AM, Matias Bjørling wrote: > Hi, > > Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash > directly. > This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings, garbage > collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on. > > This is benefic

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-21 Thread Matias Bjorling
On 03/21/2014 02:06 AM, Joe Thornber wrote: > Hi Matias, > > This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you > have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? Hi Joe, The most easily available platform is OpenSSD (http://www.openssd-project.org). It's a little ol

Re: [dm-devel] [PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-21 Thread Joe Thornber
Hi Matias, This looks really interesting and I'd love to get involved. Do you have any recommendations for what hardware I should pick up? - Joe On Thu, Mar 20, 2014 at 11:32:17PM -0700, Matias Bjørling wrote: > Hi, > > Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash >

[PATCH RFC v1 00/01] dm-lightnvm introduction

2014-03-20 Thread Matias Bjørling
Hi, Users that have custom firmware SSDs, may choose to expose their flash directly. This allows the host to control logical to physical address mappings, garbage collection strategy, wear-leveling, and so on. This is beneficial when you either want to strip the cost of a costly controller or wan