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Date: Wed, 12 Jun 2002 04:47:59 -0700 (PDT)
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To: wjhun@ayrnetworks.com
Cc: paulus@samba.org, roland@topspin.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PCI DMA to small buffers on cache-incoherent arch
From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
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   From: William Jhun <wjhun@ayrnetworks.com>
   Date: Mon, 10 Jun 2002 11:07:40 -0700

   On Sun, Jun 09, 2002 at 09:27:05PM -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
   > I'm trying to specify this such that knowledge of cachelines and
   > whatnot don't escape the arch specific code, ho hum...  Looks like
   > that isn't possible.
   
   Perhaps provide macros in asm/pci.h that will:
   
You don't understand, I think.  I want to avoid the drivers doing
any of the "align this, align that" stuff.  I want the allocation
to do it for them, that way the code is in one place.
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