> > Well I dont mean to intrude, but IMHO, this looks like a multithreading > requirement in userspace. Probably yes. I didnt try that. >writes are generally blocking calls and if the > application intends to fill in another buffer during the time the write call is > being executed, let him use multithreading in userland and that will solve his > problem.. Or am I missing something ? Yeh, if u can somehow arrange to prepare the second buffer and send it immediately when blocking write returns, and setup a new dma for that, it should also solve the problem. any volunteers to try that out ? -nagaraj \(*_*)/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/