From owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Tue Jun 9 19:42:05 2020 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@mailman.nyi.freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2610:1c1:1:606c::19:1]) by mailman.nyi.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A690233A6B8 for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:42:05 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from mail.nomadlogic.org (mail.nomadlogic.org [174.136.98.114]) (using TLSv1.3 with cipher TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 (256/256 bits) key-exchange X25519 server-signature RSA-PSS (4096 bits) server-digest SHA256 client-signature RSA-PSS (2048 bits) client-digest SHA256) (Client CN "mail.nomadlogic.org", Issuer "Let's Encrypt Authority X3" (not verified)) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 49hL9S42y6z4Tqj for ; Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:42:04 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from pete@nomadlogic.org) Received: from MacBook-Pro.nomadlogic.org (cpe-23-243-161-111.socal.res.rr.com [23.243.161.111]) by mail.nomadlogic.org (OpenSMTPD) with ESMTPSA id a64029a0 (TLSv1.3:TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256:NO); Tue, 9 Jun 2020 19:41:56 +0000 (UTC) Subject: Re: Optane Memory To: dwilde1@gmail.com, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org References: <20200608152724.00002f13@seibercom.net> From: Pete Wright Message-ID: Date: Tue, 9 Jun 2020 12:41:56 -0700 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.15; rv:68.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/68.8.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Language: en-US X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 49hL9S42y6z4Tqj X-Spamd-Bar: -- Authentication-Results: mx1.freebsd.org; dkim=none; dmarc=none; spf=pass (mx1.freebsd.org: domain of pete@nomadlogic.org designates 174.136.98.114 as permitted sender) smtp.mailfrom=pete@nomadlogic.org X-Spamd-Result: default: False [-2.08 / 15.00]; RCVD_VIA_SMTP_AUTH(0.00)[]; ARC_NA(0.00)[]; MID_RHS_MATCH_FROM(0.00)[]; FROM_HAS_DN(0.00)[]; R_SPF_ALLOW(-0.20)[+mx]; NEURAL_HAM_LONG(-0.97)[-0.969]; MIME_GOOD(-0.10)[text/plain]; TO_DN_NONE(0.00)[]; DMARC_NA(0.00)[nomadlogic.org]; NEURAL_SPAM_SHORT(0.15)[0.149]; TO_MATCH_ENVRCPT_SOME(0.00)[]; RCPT_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; NEURAL_HAM_MEDIUM(-0.96)[-0.961]; FREEMAIL_TO(0.00)[gmail.com,freebsd.org]; FROM_EQ_ENVFROM(0.00)[]; R_DKIM_NA(0.00)[]; MIME_TRACE(0.00)[0:+]; ASN(0.00)[asn:25795, ipnet:174.136.96.0/20, country:US]; RCVD_COUNT_TWO(0.00)[2]; RCVD_TLS_ALL(0.00)[]; RECEIVED_SPAMHAUS_PBL(0.00)[23.243.161.111:received] X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.33 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 09 Jun 2020 19:42:05 -0000 On 6/9/20 11:39 AM, Donald Wilde wrote: > On 6/8/20, Jerry 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, >> , 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