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To: Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au>
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Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
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From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
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>>>>> "Brad" == Brad Hards <bhards@bigpond.net.au> writes:

    Brad> Would it be enought to move the transfer buffers to the
    Brad> start of the device struct, and then pad it up to a
    Brad> cacheline?

Something like the __dma_buffer macro I posted earlier makes it even
simpler.  I'll make a patch that adds <asm/dma_buffer.h> so we have
something concrete to discuss.

Best,
  Roland

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