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From: Michal Nazarewicz <mina86@mina86.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC] mmap(MAP_CONTIG)
Date: Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:54:05 +0200
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On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Mike Kravetz wrote:
> At Plumbers this year, Guy Shattah and Christoph Lameter gave a presentat=
ion
> titled 'User space contiguous memory allocation for DMA' [1].  The slides
> point out the performance benefits of devices that can take advantage of
> larger physically contiguous areas.

Issue I have is that kind of memory needed may depend on a device.  Some
may require contiguous blocks.  Some may support scatter-gather.  Some
may be behind IO-MMU and not care either way.

Furthermore, I feel d=C3=A9j=C3=A0 vu.  Wasn=E2=80=99t dmabuf supposed to a=
ddress this
issue?

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