From: Gianni Tedesco <gianni@scaramanga.co.uk>
To: "Cho, joon-woo" <jwc@core.kaist.ac.kr>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Q] Question about memory access
Date: 04 Aug 2003 10:35:25 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1059989725.392.2.camel@sherbert> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <00a001c35a58$02c20f00$a5a5f88f@core8fyzomwjks>
On Mon, 2003-08-04 at 08:14, Cho, joon-woo wrote:
> If someone want to transfer large data from some device to memory, he may
> use DMA method.
>
> At this point, i am confused.
>
> I think that only one process can access physical memory(RAM) at a time.
The DMA controller is a dedicated piece of hardware that copies the data
from devices to RAM. This means that other processes can use the CPU
while the DMA is in progress. That is the whole point of DMA.
--
// Gianni Tedesco (gianni at scaramanga dot co dot uk)
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-08-04 7:14 [Q] Question about memory access Cho, joon-woo
2003-08-04 9:35 ` Gianni Tedesco [this message]
2003-08-04 16:18 ` Antonio Vargas
2003-08-05 0:13 ` jw schultz
2003-08-05 16:23 ` Antonio Vargas
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