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From: mru@users.sourceforge.net (Måns Rullgård)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: DMA transfers in 2.5.67
Date: 15 Apr 2003 23:38:14 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <yw1xy92be915.fsf@zaphod.guide> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1050438684.28586.8.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk>

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > What do I need to do in a driver before doing DMA transfers to a PCI
> > card?  Using a driver that worked in 2.4 gives a throughput of only 10
> > MB/s in 2.5.67.  Is there some magic initialization that I have
> > missed?
> 
> Assuming your driver uses the new PCI api for DMA in 2.4/2.5 then there
> isnt really anything to watch. Is this on a box with > 800Mb of memory
> however ?

It's an Alpha with 768 MB.  Is it the pci_alloc_* functions you are
referring to?  I don't think they are used currently. How much memory
can these allocate?  I need chunks of up to 1 MB, not necessarily
phycically continuous.

What do those functions do that normal memory allocation does not?
Apart from setting up sg mappings, that is.

-- 
Måns Rullgård
mru@users.sf.net

  reply	other threads:[~2003-04-15 21:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-04-15 20:01 Måns Rullgård
2003-04-15 20:31 ` Alan Cox
2003-04-15 21:38   ` Måns Rullgård [this message]
2003-04-15 20:48     ` Alan Cox
2003-04-15 22:09       ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-16  8:36         ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-04-16  8:43           ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-16  8:59             ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-16  9:30               ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-16 10:01                 ` Ivan Kokshaysky
2003-04-16 10:11                   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-16  9:45 Chuck Ebbert
2003-04-16 10:11 ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-16 10:13   ` Andrew Morton
2003-04-16 10:13   ` Måns Rullgård
2003-04-18 11:25 Chuck Ebbert

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