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SubjectRe: dma_mapping_ops for i386
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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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