Quoting James Stevenson <james@stev.org>: > > alot depends greatly on the hardware and how much data > has to be transfered. > > But quite often if DMA fails for some reson it will > try to fall back to PIO something working slowly > can be better than not working at all. Is it always useful (even for the small data transfer) to use DMA ? ------------------------------------------------- This mail sent through IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ -- Kernelnewbies: Help each other learn about the Linux kernel. Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/kernelnewbies/ FAQ: http://kernelnewbies.org/faq/
