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From: Dax Rawal <daxayrawal@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: mempool with custom alignment
Date: Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:58:41 -0700
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Hi Cyril,

Definitely, yes.

Thanks.
-Dax


On Wed, Jun 3, 2015 at 11:36 AM, Cyril Chemparathy <cchemparathy@ezchip.com>
wrote:

> On Wed, 3 Jun 2015 11:30:17 -0700
> Hi Dax,
>
> Dax Rawal <daxayrawal@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > Hi,
> > I use mempool APIs to allocate DMA-able descriptor ring and buffers
> > so that I get both physical and virtual addresses of allocated
> > memory. I buffers I get from the mempool APIs are 64 byte aligned. My
> > requirement is 256byte alignment. How to achieve this? mempool APIs
> > do not seem to take alignment parameters.
> >
>
> I have a patch that allows configuration override of mempool element
> alignment to allow for larger alignment limits (e.g. 128B on the
> TILE-Gx platform, 256B on yours). Would that suffice? If so, I'd be
> happy to post this patch on the mailing list.
>
> Thanks
> -- Cyril.
>