On Sat, 19 Oct 2013, Andiry Xu wrote: > Hi Sarah, nice to see you again:) I'm still working on my PhD degree > at UC San Diego. I'm working with storage devices on Linux, but not on > driver. With fast non-volatile storage - perhaps as fast as DRAM, all the > software overhead is significant, including the kernel switch, file system > and interrupt handler, etc. So I'm trying to "bypass" the kernel entirely > rather than working on it. You know, there was a talk about this at the Plumbers Conference, given by Jeff Moyer. The slides from the talk are available here: http://www.linuxplumbersconf.org/2013/ocw//system/presentations/1029/original/Linux_Plumbers_PMem.pdf Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html