On 2/9/06, Konstantinos Pachopoulos <kostaspaxos@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
well i m not clear what you are asking but this is what i make out.
where will be i/o data written immediately if not in memory before being written to the device ?
So kernel buffers are in physical memory only i guess ;-).
CMIIW
Hope you got the point Konstantinos.
good luck
Hi,
Are i/o data written immediately to memory and the
corresponding pages "pinned" there (locked)? or kernel
buffers are used for the i/o data first and then data
are copied to memory?
well i m not clear what you are asking but this is what i make out.
where will be i/o data written immediately if not in memory before being written to the device ?
So kernel buffers are in physical memory only i guess ;-).
CMIIW
Hope you got the point Konstantinos.
good luck
Thanks
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