Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

From: David S. Miller (davem@redhat.com)
Date: Fri Mar 09 2001 - 15:00:45 EST


Pete Zaitcev writes:
> > Some hardware (like OHCI) talks to drivers using those dma handles.
>
> I wonder if it may be feasible to allocate a bunch of contiguous
> pages. Then, whenever the hardware returns a bus address, subtract
> the remembered bus address of the zone start, add the offset to
> the virtual and voila.

Thankfully, some people are not lazy :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
davem@redhat.com
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