From: "Nikita V. Youshchenko" <yoush@cs.msu.su>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: stefan@lvk.cs.msu.su
Subject: high-order allocation + highmem + streaming DMA - possible?
Date: Wed, 19 Oct 2011 10:45:40 +0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201110191045.42613@zigzag.lvk.cs.msu.su> (raw)
Hello.
We are writing a driver for a custom PCI device that receives large amount
of data.
Device is capable of DMAing received data in 64k chunks.
We have been going to:
- use physically-continuous 64k-sized memory areas using alloc_pages() with
order=4,
- allocate large number of such areas on driver init,
- implement mmap() to map those all to userspace for zero-copy processing,
- use streaming DMA to actually receive data
However I can't find a way to use streaming DMA for large highmem areas.
- pci_map_single() is for linear mapping and can't work with highmem
- pci_map_page() can work with highmem but is limited to one page
- pci_map_sg() is for s/g lists, not for single 64k blocks.
Is there a way to use streaming DMA with large memory areas located in
highmem?
Or in this situation buffers in highmem can't be used?
Nikita
next reply other threads:[~2011-10-19 6:51 UTC|newest]
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2011-10-19 6:45 Nikita V. Youshchenko [this message]
2011-10-19 10:24 ` high-order allocation + highmem + streaming DMA - possible? RKK
2011-10-19 10:55 ` Nikita V. Youshchenko
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