Eric D. Mudama wrote:

I am not convinced that a general purpose CPU, running other software
in parallel, will be able to be timely and responsive enough to
maximize bandwidth in an SSD controller without specialized hardware
support.

Fusion-io would seem to be a counter-example, since it uses a fairly simple controller (I guess the controller still performs ECC and maybe XOR) and the driver eats a whole x86 core. The result is very high performance.

Wes Felter

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