Re: swap on eMMC and other flash

2012-04-16 Thread Stephan Uphoff
Hi Arnd, On Mon, Apr 16, 2012 at 12:59 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 16 April 2012, Stephan Uphoff wrote: >> opportunity to plant a few ideas. >> >> In contrast to rotational disks read/write operation overhead and >> costs are not symmetric. >> While rand

Re: swap on eMMC and other flash

2012-04-16 Thread Stephan Uphoff
I really like where this is going and would like to use the opportunity to plant a few ideas. In contrast to rotational disks read/write operation overhead and costs are not symmetric. While random reads are much faster on flash - the number of write operations is limited by wearout and garbage co