Article: AMD's Mobile Strategy
By: anon (anon.delete@this.anon.com), December 21, 2011 3:49 pm
Room: Moderated Discussions
EduardoS (no@spam.com) on 12/21/11 wrote:
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>anon (anon@anon.com) on 12/21/11 wrote:
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>>Meant to say: writes can benefit more from caches in RAM.
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>But when someone writes it wants the data to be persisted even if something catastrophic
>happens, that's why many app waits for the data to be stored and why Windows isn't
>as aggressive as some other systems in write caching.
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>Anyway, the fact is, apps wait for writes to complete and this wait
The apps can sync data without blocking all threads immediately, of course. This is what they should try to do, but I grant that not all do.
> slow down
>my PC a lot, 8GB flash would be enough to get rid off the long chain of random writes
>annd this wouldn't cost much to be included in a hard disk.
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What apps are they? How do you know it is waiting for random writes?
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>anon (anon@anon.com) on 12/21/11 wrote:
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>>Meant to say: writes can benefit more from caches in RAM.
>
>But when someone writes it wants the data to be persisted even if something catastrophic
>happens, that's why many app waits for the data to be stored and why Windows isn't
>as aggressive as some other systems in write caching.
>
>Anyway, the fact is, apps wait for writes to complete and this wait
The apps can sync data without blocking all threads immediately, of course. This is what they should try to do, but I grant that not all do.
> slow down
>my PC a lot, 8GB flash would be enough to get rid off the long chain of random writes
>annd this wouldn't cost much to be included in a hard disk.
>
What apps are they? How do you know it is waiting for random writes?