Noralf Trønnes <nor...@tronnes.org> writes: > Hi, > > Currently I'm using the cma library with tinydrm because it was so > simple to use even though I have to work around the fact that reads are > uncached. A bigger problem that I have become aware of, is that it > restricts the dma buffers it can import since they have to be continous. > > So I looked to udl and it uses shmem. Fine, let's make a shmem gem > library similar to the cma library. > > Now I have done so and have started to think about the DOC: section, > explaining what the library does. And I'm stuck, what's the benefit of > using shmem compared to just using alloc_page()?
Using shmem means that, when the buffer isn't pinned for DMA usage by the device, the pages can be swapped out.
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