Quoting PATCH 2/2: To date, the full promise of byte-addressable access to persistent memory has only been half realized via the filesystem-dax interface. The current filesystem-dax mechanism allows ...

Modern computer systems have been built around the assumption that persistent storage is accessed via a slow, block-based interface. However, new byte-addressable, persistent memory technologies such ...

Persistent memory promises high-speed, byte-addressable access to storage, with consequent benefits for all kinds of applications. But realizing those benefits has turned out to present a number of ...

A computer that references memory on word boundaries. Word addressing applies to very early computers as the memory (RAM) in computers today addresses a single byte (see byte addressable). See word.