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Date:      Mon, 20 Aug 2001 16:34:13 -0700 (PDT)
From:      Matthew Jacob <mjacob@feral.com>
To:        Bill Paul <wpaul@FreeBSD.ORG>
Cc:        hackers@FreeBSD.ORG, current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Where to put new bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() code
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0108201629490.69048-100000@beppo>
In-Reply-To: <20010820232507.7518337B405@hub.freebsd.org>

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Yay!

The current suggestion is fine except that each platform might have a more
efficient, or even required, actual h/w mechanism for mapping mbufs.

I'd also be a little concerned with the way you're overloading stuff into mbuf
itself- but I'm a little shakier on this.

Finally- why not make this an inline?

-matt


On Mon, 20 Aug 2001, Bill Paul wrote:

> Okay, I decided today to write a bus_dmamap_load_mbuf() routine to
> make it a little easier to convert the PCI NIC drivers to use the
> busdma API. It's not the same as the NetBSD code. There are four
> new functions:
> 
> bus_dmamap_load_mbuf()
> bus_dmamap_unload_mbuf()
> bus_dmamap_sync_mbuf()
> bus_dmamap_destroy_mbuf()
> 
> This is more or less in keeping with the existing API, except the new
> routines work exclusively on mbuf lists. The thing I need to figure
> out now is where to put the code. The current suggestion from jhb is
> to create the following two new files:
> 
> sys/kern/kern_busdma.c
> sys/sys/busdma.h
> 
> The functions are machine-independent, so they shouldn't be in
> sys/<arch>/<arch>/busdma_machdep.c. I mean, they could go there, but
> that would just result in code duplication. If somebody has a better
> suggestion, now's the time to speak up. Please let's avoid creating
> another bikeshed over this.
> 
> Current code snapshot resides at:
> 
> http://www.freebsd.org/~wpaul/busdma
> 
> There's also a modified version if the Adaptec "starfire" driver there
> which uses the new routines. I'm running this version of the driver on
> a test box in the lab right now.
> 
> -Bill
> 
> --
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> -Bill Paul            (510) 749-2329 | Senior Engineer, Master of Unix-Fu
>                  wpaul@windriver.com | Wind River Systems
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