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[Frank Mori Hess]

On Saturday 06 June 2009, Greg KH wrote:
> Frank and Ian, any thoughts about the vmap call in the
> comedi_buf_alloc() call?  Why is it using PAGE_KERNEL_NOCACHE, and what
> is the prealloc_buf buffer used for?

It is a circular buffer used to hold data streaming either to or from a 
board (for example when producing an analog output waveform).  Reads and 
writes to the device files read/write to the circular buffer, plus a few 
drivers do dma directly to/from it.  I personally don't have a problem 
with requiring drivers to have their own dma buffers and making them copy 
data between their private dma buffers and the main circular buffer.  I 
guess the original design wanted to support zero-copy dma.

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