Messages in this thread |  | | Date | Sat, 20 Jan 2001 19:00:21 +0100 | From | Manfred Spraul <> | Subject | Re: Inefficient PCI DMA usage (was: [experimental patch] UHCI updates) |
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> > TD's are around 32 bytes big (actually, they may be 48 or even 64 now, I > haven't checked recently). That's a waste of space for an entire page. > > However, having every driver implement it's own slab cache seems a > complete waste of time when we already have the code to do so in > mm/slab.c. It would be nice if we could extend the generic slab code to > understand the PCI DMA API for us. > I missed the beginning of the thread:
What are the exact requirements for TD's? I have 3 tiny updates for mm/slab.c that I'll send to Linus as soon as 2.4 has stabilized a bit more, perhaps I can integrate the code for USB.
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