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From: Arjan van de Ven <arjanv@redhat.com>
To: Martin Drab <drab@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: mmap(2)ping of pci_alloc_consistent() allocated buffers on 2.4 kernels question/help
Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 23:46:32 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050916214632.GA13136@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.60.0509162302310.14757@kepler.fjfi.cvut.cz>


On Fri, Sep 16, 2005 at 11:24:08PM +0200, Martin Drab wrote:
> 
> And would that help anyhow?

yes it would

> (obtained via the RT FIFO) that he wants to mmap, the ioctl mmaps it to 
> the app., app. uses the data, and then calls another ioctl to unmap the 
> buffer and release it for next filling.

don't use ioctls for this; the driver can just provide an mmap method and
you can map this pci alloc'd ram straight into the userspace app... 


  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-09-16 21:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-16 18:33 Martin Drab
2005-09-16 18:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-09-16 21:24   ` Martin Drab
2005-09-16 21:40     ` Martin Drab
2005-09-16 21:46     ` Arjan van de Ven [this message]
2005-09-16 21:49       ` Martin Drab

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