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Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 21:21:35 -0700 (PDT)
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To: roland@topspin.com
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Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: Roland Dreier <roland@topspin.com>
   Date: 10 Jun 2002 21:04:30 -0700

   That's fine but there are drivers (USB, etc) doing
   
   	struct something {
   	        int field1;
   	        char dma_buffer[SMALLER_THAN_CACHE_LINE];
   	        int field2;
   	};
   
   	struct something *dev = kmalloc(sizeof *dev, GFP_KERNEL);
   
   Do they have to change to
   
How about allocating struct something using pci_pool?
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