From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Amit S. Jain" <amitjain@tifr.res.in>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Memory allocation in Linux (fwd)
Date: 19 Apr 2002 11:46:13 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14ri760pm.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.21.0204151414050.20877-100000@mailhost.tifr.res.in>
"Amit S. Jain" <amitjain@tifr.res.in> writes:
> You cannot pass address returned from vmalloc to hardware: vmalloc returns
> > a virtual mapping of memory.
> >
> > -ben
>
>
> Thanks Ben,
>
> So wass the solution for this.....??
Call get_free_pages explicitly use the scatter gather support
in the network layer. You should be able to pass a linked
list of pages.
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-04-19 17:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-04-04 7:34 Memory allocation in Linux (fwd) Amit S. Jain
2002-04-04 11:52 ` Joseph A Knapka
2002-04-11 12:46 ` Amit S. Jain
2002-04-11 22:08 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-04-15 8:45 ` Amit S. Jain
2002-04-19 17:46 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2002-04-04 18:38 ` Ravi
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