Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 25 May 2006 11:09:52 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/9] [I/OAT] DMA memcpy subsystem | From | Olof Johansson <> |
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On Thu, May 25, 2006 at 10:59:40AM -0700, Olof Johansson wrote:
> Is there a specific reason for why you chose to export 3 different > memcpu calls? They're all just wrapped to the same internals. > > It would seem to make sense to have the client do their own > page_address(page) + offset calculations and just export one function?
Nevermind. I'm too used to 64-bit environments where all memory is always addressable to the kernel. There's obvious reasons to do it on 32-bit platforms to avoid the extra kernel mapping.
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