From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Date: Wed, 16 Aug 2000 20:53:56 +0100 From: "Stephen C. Tweedie" Subject: Re: pte_pagenr/MAP_NR deleted in pre6 Message-ID: <20000816205356.N19260@redhat.com> References: <399A4FE4.FA5C397A@augan.com> <200008161713.KAA54085@google.engr.sgi.com> <20000816192012.K19260@redhat.com> <200008161824.LAA09497@pizda.ninka.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200008161824.LAA09497@pizda.ninka.net>; from davem@redhat.com on Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:24:23AM -0700 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Return-Path: To: "David S. Miller" Cc: sct@redhat.com, kanoj@google.engr.sgi.com, roman@augan.com, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk, nico@cam.org, davidm@hpl.hp.com, alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk List-ID: Hi, On Wed, Aug 16, 2000 at 11:24:23AM -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > Which is one of the reasons I wish the bounce buffer stuff went into > the place it belongs, behind the pci_dma API. If we move to a > page+offset model for drivers, we could do exactly this and also > handle cases like ix86 PAE. Fine --- it is pretty easy to generate a scatterlist from a kiobuf so that drivers using a kiovec API can use the existing pci_dma support. Cheers, Stephen -- 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.eu.org/Linux-MM/