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Date:      Wed, 12 Aug 1998 16:05:27 -0400 (EDT)
From:      zhihuizhang <bf20761@binghamton.edu>
To:        hackers <freebsd-hackers@FreeBSD.ORG>
Subject:   Some buffer questions
Message-ID:  <Pine.SOL.L3.93.980812154116.26372B-100000@bingsun1>

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Hi,

It seems to me that there are two kinds of buffers: phyical buffers and
(normal?) buffers.  Both use the structure buf to describe them. Normal
buffers are further divided into VMIO and non-VMIO.  Can any one explain
these classifications to me? 

Any help is appreciated.

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| Zhihui Zhang, http://cs.binghamton.edu/~zzhang |
| Dept. of Computer Science,  SUNY at Binghamton |
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