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From: Peter Jeremy <PeterJeremy@optushome.com.au>
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Subject: Re: bus_dmamem_alloc() can't handle large NOWAIT requests
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On Sun, 2005-Jan-09 12:11:32 +1100, Peter Jeremy wrote:
>According to bus_dma(9), bus_dmamem_alloc() can be invoked with a
>flag BUS_DMA_NOWAIT to indicate that sleep()ing is not allowed.
>
>At least on the i386, if the requested size exceeds 1 page (or some
>other cases), the requested memory will be allocated via contigmalloc().
>
>bus_dmamem_alloc() maps BUS_DMA_NOWAIT to M_NOWAIT but contigmalloc()
>does not support M_NOWAIT and will tsleep() under some conditions.

Since I couldn't find any reference to this problem in gnats, I've
raised kern/78179 so it doesn't get lost.

-- 
Peter Jeremy