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From: Huang Shijie <shijie8@gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 11, 2013 at 05:31:12PM -0300, Ezequiel Garcia wrote:
> Isn't completely bloated to setup a DMA operation just to transfer a
> bunch of bytes? Wouldn't that seriously hurt performance?
> 
> Or maybe it doesn't matter because those commands are scarcely
> invoked...
As you said, those commands are scarcely invoked.

thanks
Huang Shijie