Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing) | From | David Woodhouse <> | Date | Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:39:54 +0000 |
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On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 14:31 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > Someone should try implementing the zeroing driver for a fast x86 PCI > device. :)
The BT848/BT878 seems like an ideal candidate. That kind of abuse is probably only really worth it on an architecture with cache-coherent DMA though. If you have to flush the cache anyway, you might as well just zero it from the CPU.
-- dwmw2
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