Messages in this thread | | | From | Michal Nazarewicz <> | Subject | Re: [RFC] mmap(MAP_CONTIG) | Date | Wed, 04 Oct 2017 13:54:05 +0200 |
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On Tue, Oct 03 2017, Mike Kravetz wrote: > At Plumbers this year, Guy Shattah and Christoph Lameter gave a presentation > titled 'User space contiguous memory allocation for DMA' [1]. The slides > point out the performance benefits of devices that can take advantage of > larger physically contiguous areas.
Issue I have is that kind of memory needed may depend on a device. Some may require contiguous blocks. Some may support scatter-gather. Some may be behind IO-MMU and not care either way.
Furthermore, I feel déjà vu. Wasn’t dmabuf supposed to address this issue?
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