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From: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>
To: William D Waddington <csbwaddington@att.net>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [never mind] kiobufs and highmem
Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 11:32:58 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020719113258.B12183@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ic9gju44p7ukriuv4etl0tdc5f6uf5s08m@4ax.com>; from csbwaddington@att.net on Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:00:00AM -0700

On Fri, Jul 19, 2002 at 08:00:00AM -0700, William D Waddington wrote:
> Looks like three (?) options: go back to copying to a kernel DMA
> buffer for all cases (swell for performance), split the code path into
> map_user and copy_user branches (not that fond of spaghetti),
> or - in the highmem case - copy to a local buffer and populate the
> kiobuf with those pages and feed that to pci_map_sg().

Or use the PCI-DMA API function pci_map_single() that's documented in 
Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt to get a 64 bit pointer?  Don't forget to 
do a pci_set_dma_mask too, but that's mentioned in DMA-mapping.txt.

		-ben
-- 
"You will be reincarnated as a toad; and you will be much happier."

  reply	other threads:[~2002-07-19 15:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-07-19 15:00 [never mind] kiobufs and highmem William D Waddington
2002-07-19 15:32 ` Benjamin LaHaise [this message]
2002-07-19 22:39 ` Ingo Oeser
2002-07-23 11:17   ` Gerd Knorr

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