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Date:      Wed, 22 Mar 1995 03:57:42 -0800
From:      David Greenman <davidg@Root.COM>
To:        Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au>
Cc:        freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com, kuku@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de
Subject:   Re: Why IDE is bad 
Message-ID:  <199503221157.DAA02482@corbin.Root.COM>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Wed, 22 Mar 95 21:49:25 %2B1000." <199503221149.VAA12384@godzilla.zeta.org.au> 

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>>>This might explain why my Intr time is so much lower than Poul's.
>>>I have only 16MB, and don't use option BOUNCE_BUFFERS.  The bcopy()
>>>for bouncing is done in a call from biodone().  biodone() is called
>>>from the interrupt handler, at least for the wd driver.
>
>>   Bounce buffers are not used on wd-style drives.
>
>I just looked at wd.c because there's no direct call to biodone() in 
>bt742a.c.  I think it gets called from the upper layers for scsi
>drivers.

   It's called from sd.c and other places. Only B_BOUNCE buffers are freed in
biodone. B_BOUNCE buffers are only created in vm_bounce_alloc(), and that is
only called for bus mastering controllers that can't DMA above 16MB.

-DG



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