On Thu, Sep 25, 2003 at 01:25:00PM -0700, Eugene Surovegin wrote: > At 12:56 PM 9/25/2003, Matt Porter wrote: > >When a buffer is allocated using the allowed methods (as defined in > >DMA-mapping.txt) to obtain memory for use in DMA, there is > >no guarantee that the buffer is cacheline aligned. > > Hmm, I don't think this is true. > > DMA-mapping.txt explicitly states that pci_alloc_consistent() returns > aligned memory buffer: > > " ... The cpu return address and the DMA bus master address are both > guaranteed to be aligned to the smallest PAGE_SIZE order which > is greater than or equal to the requested size. This invariant > exists (for example) to guarantee that if you allocate a chunk > which is smaller than or equal to 64 kilobytes, the extent of the > buffer you receive will not cross a 64K boundary..." > > I think it's safe to assume that PAGE_SIZE alignment also guarantees > cacheline alignment for all existing CPUs.
Yes, that's correct. However, I was alluding to kmalloc()'ed buffers that are to be used with the streaming calls in the DMA API. -Matt ** Sent via the linuxppc-embedded mail list. See http://lists.linuxppc.org/