Re: Infrastructure for zerocopy I/O

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On Mon, Nov 16, 2015 at 01:29:58PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> A proposed patch has been posted
> (http://marc.info/?l=linux-usb&m=144763502829452&w=2), but I'm not
> convinced that it is the best approach.  For instance, it always tries 
> to get contiguous pages and so is vulnerable to memory fragmentation.

What Alan says is right, but there's one additional piece of information:
The patch also makes allocation an up-front issue (the memory block allocated
can be reused across transfers), so if you can allocate at the start of the
program, you will not be affected by later fragmentation.

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