| Date | Mon, 30 Aug 2010 10:27:50 +0200 | From | Clemens Ladisch <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH/RFCv4 0/6] The Contiguous Memory Allocator framework |
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Andrew Morton wrote: > It would help (a lot) if we could get more attention and buyin and > fedback from the potential clients of this code. rmk's feedback is > valuable. Have we heard from the linux-media people? What other > subsystems might use it? ieee1394 perhaps?
All FireWire controllers are OHCI and use scatter-gather lists.
Most USB controllers require continuous memory for USB packets; the USB framework has its own DMA buffer cache.
Some sound cards have no IOMMU; the ALSA framework preallocates buffers for those.
Regards, Clemens
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