Re: solid state drive access and context switching

[Robert Hancock]

Chris Friesen wrote:
> Over on comp.os.linux.development.system someone asked an interesting 
> question, and I thought I'd mention it here.
>
> Given a fast low-latency solid state drive, would it ever be beneficial 
> to simply wait in the kernel for synchronous read/write calls to 
> complete?  The idea is that you could avoid at least two task context 
> switches, and if the data access can be completed at less cost than 
> those context switches it could be an overall win.
>
> Has anyone played with this concept?

I don't think most SSDs are fast enough that it would really be worth 
avoiding the context switch for.. I could be wrong though.

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