Re: memory allocation for DMA operations from network interface

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On Sun, 2005-11-27 at 19:06 +0100, Mateusz Berezecki wrote:
> Hello List,
> 
> My question is about DMA transfers from network device. I suspect
> these transfers require allocating physically contiguous memory 
> blocks. What is the proper way to allocate such contiguous memory for
> DMA purposes inside the kernel? Also what is the proper and
> architecture independent way to convert virtual address to physical
> one?

see Documentation/DMA-mapping.txt


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