Subject: Re: Measuring memory to memory copy operations (+ interrupts, DMA)
To: Kamal R Prasad <kamalrpr@in.ibm.com>
From: David Laight <david@l8s.co.uk>
List: tech-kern
Date: 08/19/2003 15:32:50
On Tue, Aug 19, 2003 at 06:35:57PM +0530, Kamal R Prasad wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> If I understand correctly, if the userland page is pinned -then 
> memcpy(userspace, kernelspace) is as expensive as within a single context. 
> Pl. correct me if Im wrong.

It isn't necessarily even valid - do any NetBSD ports require alternate
ASIs to be used to userspace?
I know i386 doesn't :-(

	David

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