[clug] Is there a NVMe equivalent to the Fusion-IO 'Virtual Storage Layer'?

steve jenkin sjenkin at canb.auug.org.au
Mon Mar 19 22:04:19 UTC 2018


In 2011, Fusion-IO & Princeton produced a driver that extended RAM with Flash memory on the PCIe bus.
This avoided page faults entirely - calls didn’t go through the disk drive stack - making this blindingly fast.

I’ve found the ‘nmve’ driver, but think that only maps the SSD as a disk drive, not as ‘extended memory’.

Is there a modern equivalent for M.2 PCIe / NVMe SSD’s?

regards
stevej

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Fusion-io server strokers show off 2.6TB RAM extension
<https://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/07/11/fusion_io_extended_memory/>

ioMemory Virtual Storage Layer (VSL)
<https://web.archive.org/web/20120725135227/http://www.fusionio.com/overviews/vsl-technical-overview/>

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