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From: Dan Malek <dan@embeddedalley.com>
Subject: Re: Discussion about iopa()
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 12:08:15 -0500
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On Feb 8, 2007, at 8:41 AM, Timur Tabi wrote:

> Walking the page table is slower than using pointer math, so you  
> want to
> avoid iopa() if you can.

Big deal.  With all of the other kernel bloat
going on you want to argue about a couple
of memory accesses?  :-)

	-- Dan