From: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
To: Jason Howard <lists@spectsoft.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: kiovec/kiobuf replacement
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 2003 20:03:46 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030126200346.25f254e4.akpm@digeo.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1043639121.1447.21.camel@bmagic.spectsoft.com>
Jason Howard <lists@spectsoft.com> wrote:
>
> Hello All,
>
> What is the correct change in code/mindset needed to replace the
> kiovec/kiobuf routines? I am currently using there routines to do a
> scatter gather DMA from a user space buffer to/from a PCI video frame
> buffer device. Should I approach this problem differently? The user
> space buffer can be up to 8MB in size.
>
Direct use of get_user_pages() seems to be working OK for that sort of thing.
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2003-01-27 3:45 Jason Howard
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