multisegment bus_dmamem_alloc()
Mark Tinguely
tinguely at casselton.net
Fri Mar 2 15:13:37 UTC 2007
Are there any other devices other than bktr(4) that could benefit
from a multisegment bus_dmamem_alloc(9) routine? The old USB system
comes to mind, but I have not studied the new USB. There may be others.
NetBSD only partially implements this (if the number page allocated > number
of segments, they punt and do a totally contiguous allocation - IMO, they
could fix this pretty easy though).
I know chages to contigmalloc() is a tricky subject. I was hoping
there are enough drivers that would provide enough merits to change
such an important part of the system. If not, please forgive this noise.
--Mark Tinguely
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