Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> +Locking down user memory and doing mass storage device IO with it is not
> +the only purpose of kiobufs. Another use for kiobufs is allowing
> +user-space mmaping dma memory, e.g in sound drivers. To do so you
> +need to lock-down kernel virtual memory and refernece it using kiobufs.
> +The code that does exactly this is not yet in the kernel - get Stephen
> +Tweedie's kiobuf patchset if you want to use this.
Take a look at drivers/sound/via82cxxx_audio.c. How can that mmap be
improved by using kiobufs?
It seems like there is less overhead to mmap(2) DMA memory the way I do
it currently -- without kiobufs...
Honestly interested,
Jeff
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