Hi, On Sat, Sep 10, 2011 at 3:30 PM, Michael Blizek <[email protected]> wrote: >> The whole point of allocating a large chunk of memory is to avoid >> extra memory copy because I need to run decompression algorithms on >> it. > > In this case scatterlists solves 2 problems at once. First, you will not need > to allocate large continuous memory regions. Second, you avoid wasting memory. The problem is that the decompression library works on contiguous memory, so I have to provide contiguous memory instead of scatterlists.
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