Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch | Date | Wed, 12 Jun 2002 14:08:26 +0200 |
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Am Mittwoch, 12. Juni 2002 13:47 schrieb David S. Miller: > From: William Jhun <wjhun@ayrnetworks.com> > Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:07:40 -0700 > > On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:27:05PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > I'm trying to specify this such that knowledge of cachelines and > > whatnot don't escape the arch specific code, ho hum... Looks like > > that isn't possible. > > Perhaps provide macros in asm/pci.h that will: > > You don't understand, I think. I want to avoid the drivers doing > any of the "align this, align that" stuff. I want the allocation > to do it for them, that way the code is in one place.
That means that all buffers must be allocated seperately. Is it worth that ? How about skbuffs ?
Regards Oliver
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