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Date:      Thu, 16 Jan 2003 15:47:24 -0800 (PST)
From:      Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>
To:        Sam Leffler <sam@errno.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/firewire firewire.c fwdev.c fwohci.c   fwohcivar.h
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.4.21.0301161546050.47824-100000@root.org>
In-Reply-To: <20e801c2bdad$770d56f0$5a557f42@errno.com>

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On Thu, 16 Jan 2003, Sam Leffler wrote:
> > >>   Modified files:
> > >>     sys/dev/firewire     firewire.c fwdev.c fwohci.c fwohcivar.h
> > >>   Log:
> > >>   Improve memory allocation.
> > >>   - Don't use contigmalloc() and allocate page by page to avoid
> > >>           allocation failure.
> > >>   - allocate buffer by PAGE_SIZE.
> > >
> > > Some comments.
> > >
> > >> - contigfree((void *)(uintptr_t)sc->fc.sid_buf,
> > >> - OHCI_SIDSIZE, M_DEVBUF);
> > >> + free((void *)(uintptr_t)sc->fc.sid_buf, M_DEVBUF);
> >
> > malloced buffers are not guaranteed to be accessable by a device.
> > Use bus dma instead.
> 
> New drivers should use bus_dma.  I recently hit an issue like this with
> jumbo mbufs not being handled by the bge driver because it doesn't use bus
> dma.

Valid points.  I just wanted to clarify that many of his mallocs are not
for buffers addressed by dma but also for control/header structures.  
Those do not need to be changed.

-Nate


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