[openib-general] problem with 2.6.19?
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Mon Oct 30 07:52:42 PST 2006
> By the way, by userspace DMA do you mean DMA to userspace buffers, or
> DMA initiated by userspace? I'm assuming the former, but if it's the
> latter, how are the addresses returned from dma_map_sg communicated to
> userspace?
Actually, both. Userspace deals in virtual addresses (it asks the
kernel to register memory in advance, and the kernel loads the IB
device with the virtual -> bus mapping).
- R.
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