Re: Interacting with coherent memory on external devices

From: Christoph Lameter
Date: Fri Apr 24 2015 - 10:30:48 EST


On Thu, 23 Apr 2015, Paul E. McKenney wrote:

> If by "entire industry" you mean everyone who might want to use hardware
> acceleration, for example, including mechanical computer-aided design,
> I am skeptical.

The industry designs GPUs with super fast special ram and accellerators
with special ram designed to do fast searches and you think you can demand page
that stuff in from the main processor?

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