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From: Oliver Neukum <oliver@neukum.name>
To: Mark Zealey <mark@zealos.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 20:44:22 +0200
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> > These two, in conjunction, would provide a buffer that's aligned on a
> > cacheline boundary and ends on a cacheline boundary. Kind of ugly, but
> > would be sufficient and would hide the cacheline size specifics.
> > Cache-coherent platforms would just returned the original argument.
>
> Why not just make some dmalloc() macro in pci.h which will do the
> nessecory magic resizing and alignments? seems a lot easier to do...

That won't be enough. We need a solution for buffers that are parts of
structures.

	Regards
		Oliver


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