Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch | Date | Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:44:22 +0200 |
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> > These two, in conjunction, would provide a buffer that's aligned on a > > cacheline boundary and ends on a cacheline boundary. Kind of ugly, but > > would be sufficient and would hide the cacheline size specifics. > > Cache-coherent platforms would just returned the original argument. > > Why not just make some dmalloc() macro in pci.h which will do the > nessecory magic resizing and alignments? seems a lot easier to do...
That won't be enough. We need a solution for buffers that are parts of structures.
Regards Oliver
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