From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Subject: Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing) From: David Woodhouse In-Reply-To: References: <1106828124.19262.45.camel@hades.cambridge.redhat.com> <20050202153256.GA19615@logos.cnet> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 21:33:45 +0000 Message-Id: <1107380025.18239.30.camel@baythorne.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: Marcelo Tosatti , Christoph Lameter , linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org List-ID: 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 -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@kvack.org. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: aart@kvack.org