Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:03:46 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: kiovec/kiobuf replacement |
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Jason Howard <lists@spectsoft.com> wrote: > > Hello All, > > What is the correct change in code/mindset needed to replace the > kiovec/kiobuf routines? I am currently using there routines to do a > scatter gather DMA from a user space buffer to/from a PCI video frame > buffer device. Should I approach this problem differently? The user > space buffer can be up to 8MB in size. >
Direct use of get_user_pages() seems to be working OK for that sort of thing.
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