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DateTue, 04 Oct 2005 19:21:37 +0530
FromKarthik Sarangan <>
SubjectUsing DMA in read/write, setting block size for I/O
In my application, I have the following code.

int main(void)
{
    char *pcBuffer;
    posix_memalign((void **) pcBuffer, 512, 262144);
    int ifd = open("/dev/sdb", O_DIRECT | O_RDWR);
    long lLen;
    lLen = read(ifd, pcBuffer, 262144);

    close(ifd);
    return 0;
}
Will the underlying block device read a single 256KB block from the hdd 
into pcBuffer
or will it read 256KB as a set of smaller blocks?

Since the buffer is memory aligned will it enable DMA?

scsi disk driver is adaptec aic79xx.o
distro is RedHat Enterprise Linux WS 4 (kernel-2.6.9-11)
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