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From: Christian.Hinkelbein@t-online.de (Christian Hinkelbein)
Date: Sat, 17 Jan 2004 18:47:10 +0000
Subject: Re: dma restriction on Itanium 2
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Grant Grundler wrote:
> Yes. HPUX has a similar interface for DMA mapping but a completely
> different VM subsystem. Linux guarantees contiguous physical blocks
> for multi-page memory allocations. HPUX does not. The linux DMA
> subsystem uses that assumption.
you are talking about kernel-mode __get_free_pages and kmalloc,
and not user-mode malloc, arent you?

  christian