Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261355AbVDSPsq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:48:46 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261615AbVDSPsq (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:48:46 -0400 Received: from wproxy.gmail.com ([64.233.184.205]:20698 "EHLO wproxy.gmail.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261355AbVDSPsp convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 19 Apr 2005 11:48:45 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:reply-to:to:subject:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition; b=Ul/vRNRKIT+KPxvMGxPlBuBxYSFeB8CNddTsCPRXl8kb6zxrroPyLxPwX/juHpb1J5A66oLLqCqwY1dFwq70zc/8zUILdZOJPb7IrPkhcjxjr/hidCEIQyYn6wSv++goHqP7OA6wkK6oi8ImTJ915HDJSOr6hyp0HFnUa3fNQR8= Message-ID: <875fe4a5050419084873ae8db1@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 19 Apr 2005 15:48:45 +0000 From: Francesco Oppedisano Reply-To: Francesco Oppedisano To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: DMA transfer Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 533 Lines: 14 Hi, when i NIC writes a packet in memory using a DMA transaction, can i be sure that this transaction will tranfer the entire frame or it is possible to have frame fragmentation with every fragment beeing transferred in a separate DMA transaction? Thank u very much Francesco Oppedisano - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/