Messages in this thread | | | From | Herbert Xu <> | Subject | Re: dma_mapping_ops for i386 | Date | Sun, 01 Jul 2007 02:41:02 +0800 |
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Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@il.ibm.com> wrote: > >> And probably some similar mechanism for network drivers that limits >> MTUs. > > Will that guarantee that block and net IOs will not straddle a page > boundary?
Mostly. There is the thorny case of slab debugging that breaks these nice assumptions.
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