linuxppc-dev.lists.ozlabs.org archive mirror
 help / color / mirror / Atom feed
From: Linh Dang <linh@linhdang.home>
To: linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org
Subject: Re: BAT mapping exported to user-space
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:33:27 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <wn5ekmysjns.fsf@linhd-2.ca.nortel.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <EB9CAD60-DF2E-11D8-910D-003065F9B7DC@embeddededge.com> (Dan Malek's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 14:09:22 -0400")


Dan Malek <dan@embeddededge.com> wrote:

>
> On Jul 26, 2004, at 1:20 PM, Linh Dang wrote:
>
>> - has it been discussed/comptemplate/done before?
>
> Of course.  Use mmap(), either on /dev/mem directly, or more
> preferable through a simple device driver for your ASIC that
> could also do simple system protection.
>
> Please don't be making such memory mapping kernel
> modifications.  It will only cause future trouble.
>
> -- Dan


My understanding is:

- mmap(2) uses pages to map the device (my platform doesn't have large page.)
- mapping a large address range (hundreds-of-megabytes) is much more
  efficient with BATs than with pages.

So, do you mean:
        - mmap(2) can use BATs? or
        - the difference in performance is negligible between BATs and
          pages when mapping an address range of 200MBs?


Thanx
--
Linh Dang

** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/

  reply	other threads:[~2004-07-26 18:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-07-26 17:20 BAT mapping exported to user-space Linh Dang
2004-07-26 18:09 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-26 18:33   ` Linh Dang [this message]
2004-07-27  1:18     ` Dan Malek
2004-07-27  2:27       ` Linh Dang
2004-07-27 16:36         ` Dan Malek
2004-07-27 17:34           ` Dang, Linh [CAR:2X23:EXCH]
2004-07-27 18:02             ` Dan Malek
2004-07-27 19:32               ` Linh Dang
2004-07-27 20:09                 ` Dan Malek
2004-07-28  8:12                 ` Oliver Korpilla

Reply instructions:

You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:

* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
  and reply-to-all from there: mbox

  Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style

* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
  switches of git-send-email(1):

  git send-email \
    --in-reply-to=wn5ekmysjns.fsf@linhd-2.ca.nortel.com \
    --to=linh@linhdang.home \
    --cc=linuxppc-embedded@lists.linuxppc.org \
    /path/to/YOUR_REPLY

  https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html

* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
  via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for NNTP newsgroup(s).