Intel NVM Express Driver For Linux 3.3 Kernel

[phoronix]

Phoronix: Intel NVM Express Driver For Linux 3.3 Kernel

Linus Torvalds has been called upon to pull the NVM Express driver into the Linux 3.3 mainline kernel...

http://www.phoronix.com/vr.php?view=MTA0NTE

[Zan Lynx]

Now the question is "Will anyone use it?"

The other big PCI-e SSD sellers have already written their own high performing custom drivers. For example I don't see Fusion-IO changing to use NVM Express. Not when most of their performance comes from how they use the driver to schedule writes and cache block information for quick reads.