On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 01:11:49PM -0700, Zach Pfeffer wrote: > If the DMA-API contained functions to allocate virtual space separate > from physical space and reworked how chained buffers functioned it > would probably work - but then things start to look like the VCM API > which does graph based map management. Every additional virtual mapping of a physical buffer results in additional cache aliases on aliasing caches, and more workload for developers to sort out the cache aliasing issues. What does VCM to do mitigate that? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
