Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:41:56 -0700 From: Pete Wright <pete@nomadlogic.org> To: dwilde1@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Optane Memory Message-ID: <e29fbf6c-37d1-5e5d-2fb3-5fa0c5473b95@nomadlogic.org> In-Reply-To: <CAEC7392RjTmg7x5_yYxAyPe-t%2B0dpngoBO_HxOSq8SWw7ru_iw@mail.gmail.com> References: <20200608152724.00002f13@seibercom.net> <CAEC7392RjTmg7x5_yYxAyPe-t%2B0dpngoBO_HxOSq8SWw7ru_iw@mail.gmail.com>
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On 6/9/20 11:39 AM, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/8/20, Jerry <jerry@seibercom.net> wrote: >> I am seriously thinking about purchasing another PC to play around >> with. My question is does FreeBSD support Intel's Optane Memory? It >> seems like it needs an Intel driver to work, or at least it does on a >> Window's machine. I have only been looking into the potential speed >> increases and not all of the other technical details. >> >> I already purchased one PC recently that FreeBSD 12.x will not work on, >> <https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=237666>, and I don't >> want to be bit in the ass a second time. >> > I'd like to know this too. In-memory-space Optane should only be a > matter of supportin gthe timings of Optane and its write cycle, which > is much like FLASH. Another question would be about Optane-based > accelerator/caching boards that Intel has been selling. > > I haven't worked for Intel for several years now, so I do not know if > these are still current products but it seems so from a cursory > search. The caching products alone should really speed up web and > network servers, so IMHO this is a must-have for FreeBSD. > I haven't had a chance to touch these boards yet physically but IIRC they get presented to the linux kernel as a nvme device. so there is a chance it may work already? i'd be interested to see if anyone else has had a chance to play with one of these. -p -- Pete Wright pete@nomadlogic.org @nomadlogicLA
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