Why is AHCI built-in?

[Michal Schmidt]

On 08/28/2013 12:46 AM, poma wrote:
> On 19.08.2013 20:46, Kyle McMartin wrote:
>> On Mon, Aug 19, 2013 at 01:35:16PM -0500, Ian Pilcher wrote:
>>> - What are the advantages of having the driver built-in, as compared to
>>>   simply ensuring that it's always included in the initramfs?
>>>
>>
>> performance, you'll take fewer tlb misses.
>>
> 
> Any links/docs to offer on this topic?

http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Module-HOWTO/x627.html#MEMALLOC