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Date:      Fri, 2 Mar 2007 08:42:06 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mark Tinguely <tinguely@casselton.net>
To:        current@freebsd.org
Subject:   multisegment bus_dmamem_alloc()
Message-ID:  <200703021442.l22Eg6QT058195@casselton.net>

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Are there any other devices other than bktr(4) that could benefit
from a multisegment bus_dmamem_alloc(9) routine? The old USB system
comes to mind, but I have not studied the new USB. There may be others.

NetBSD only partially implements this (if the number page allocated > number
of segments, they punt and do a totally contiguous allocation - IMO, they
could fix this pretty easy though).

I know chages to contigmalloc() is a tricky subject. I was hoping
there are enough drivers that would provide enough merits to change
such an important part of the system. If not, please forgive this noise.

--Mark Tinguely



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