Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch

From: Oliver Neukum (oliver@neukum.name)
Date: Mon Jun 10 2002 - 13:44:22 EST


> > These two, in conjunction, would provide a buffer that's aligned on a
> > cacheline boundary and ends on a cacheline boundary. Kind of ugly, but
> > would be sufficient and would hide the cacheline size specifics.
> > Cache-coherent platforms would just returned the original argument.
>
> Why not just make some dmalloc() macro in pci.h which will do the
> nessecory magic resizing and alignments? seems a lot easier to do...

That won't be enough. We need a solution for buffers that are parts of
structures.

        Regards
                Oliver

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