Re: Infrastructure for zerocopy I/O

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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 03:01:39PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>> On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 02:07:58PM -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
>>> Is there an API for allocating user memory below 4 GB?  Would a new 
>>> MMAP flag be acceptable?
>> MAP_32BIT (to mmap) can seemingly do this, but from the man page, it sounds
>> more like a kludge than anything else.
> No, that's not what I'm talking about.  MAP_32BIT means that the new 
> memory's _virtual_ address should be below 2 GB.  I'm talking about the 
> _physical_ address.

Sorry, I misunderstood the documentation.

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