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Date: Fri, 26 Sep 2008 11:11:35 +0200
From: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: marty <martyleisner@yahoo.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       martin.leisner@xerox.com
Subject: Re: disk IO directly from PCI memory to block device sectors
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On Fri, Sep 26 2008, Alan Cox wrote:
> > What I'm looking is for a more generic/driver independent way of sticking
> > contents of PCI ram onto a disk.
> 
> Ermm seriously why not have a userspace task with the PCI RAM mmapped
> and just use write() like normal sane people do ?

To avoid the fault and copy, I would assume.

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Jens Axboe