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From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <marcelo.tosatti@cyclades.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)
Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:33:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1107380025.18239.30.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.61L.0502022000470.9448@blysk.ds.pg.gda.pl>

On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:00 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
>  E.g. the Broadcom's MIPS64-based SOCs have four general purpose DMA 
> engines onchip which can transfer data to/from the memory controller in 
> 32-byte chunks over the 256-bit internal bus.  We have hardly any use for 
> these devices and certainly not for all four of them.

On machines like the Ocelot, I keep intending to abuse one of the DMA
engines for access to the DiskOnChip. Really must dig the Ocelot out of
the dusty pile of toys... :)

-- 
dwmw2


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  reply	other threads:[~2005-02-02 21:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-01-21 20:29 Christoph Lameter
2005-01-27 12:15 ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-27 13:12   ` Robin Holt
2005-01-27 13:14     ` David Woodhouse
2005-01-27 17:02       ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-08 11:31     ` Ralf Baechle
2005-02-02 15:32   ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-02 19:05     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-02 16:31       ` Marcelo Tosatti
2005-02-02 21:31         ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-02 21:39         ` David Woodhouse
2005-02-03  3:06         ` Rik van Riel
2005-02-03 23:39           ` Paul Mackerras
2005-02-04  0:59             ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-04  5:30               ` Paul Mackerras
2005-02-04  6:26                 ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-04  6:43                   ` Nick Piggin
2005-02-04  6:50                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-04  9:20                   ` Paul Mackerras
2005-02-04  9:28                     ` Andi Kleen
2005-02-04 17:02                     ` Christoph Lameter
2005-02-04 22:25                       ` Paul Mackerras
2005-02-02 21:00     ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2005-02-02 21:33       ` David Woodhouse [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-01-04 23:13 Prezeroing V3 [1/4]: Allow request for zeroed memory Christoph Lameter
2005-01-08 21:12 ` Hugh Dickins
2005-01-08 21:56   ` David S. Miller
2005-01-21 20:15     ` A scrub daemon (prezeroing) Christoph Lameter

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