> Sounds interesting, but implementing this is beyond my current knowledge
> of Linux internals.
>
> I think I'll first implement vmalloc_uncached for my specific machine, so
> at least I can make sure I have a working net driver for now, but I'll
> need help to implement the kind of solution you are talking about.
vmalloc isn't a good general solution as it allocates non-continguous
physical pages. It also would require drivers to walk page tables and
you know Linus' opinion about that ...
Ralf
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