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Date:      Tue, 15 Apr 1997 19:02:46 -0700
From:      David Greenman <dg@root.com>
To:        Jaye Mathisen <mrcpu@cdsnet.net>
Cc:        dyson@FreeBSD.ORG, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Doing the FreeBSD tightrope walk. 
Message-ID:  <199704160202.TAA23707@root.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Apr 1997 18:25:18 PDT." <Pine.NEB.3.95.970415182314.23227N-100000@mail.cdsnet.net> 

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>What is aggravating I guess is that I can swear that I've seen on this
>list statements to the effect of "Bounce buffers support doesn't hurt
>anything, so you might as well leave it in".
>
>Obviously false.

   The statement means only that bounce buffer support doesn't slow down I/O
on DMA controllers that don't need it, i.e. doesn't hurt performance. The
buffer pool is still allocated at system startup, however.

-DG

David Greenman
Core-team/Principal Architect, The FreeBSD Project



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