Re: SLAB vs. pci_alloc_xxx in usb-uhci patch [RFC: API]

[David S. Miller]

Pete Zaitcev writes:
 > > Some hardware (like OHCI) talks to drivers using those dma handles.
 > 
 > I wonder if it may be feasible to allocate a bunch of contiguous
 > pages. Then, whenever the hardware returns a bus address, subtract
 > the remembered bus address of the zone start, add the offset to
 > the virtual and voila.

Thankfully, some people are not lazy :-)

Later,
David S. Miller
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