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Re: USB contigmalloc()



On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 05:33:27PM +0100, Thomas Klausner wrote:
> Matthew Dillon implemented a solution for USB/graphics cards problem
> stemming from the fact that some time after the boot, they can't
> acquire enough contiguous memory.
> 
> http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.os.dragonfly-bsd.kernel/14431
> 
> Anyone interested in porting it or implementing something similar? :)
>  Thomas

We have it in the USB stack already.  Though some cardbus and pci drivers
still could use something similar.

It's really Not Good Enough.  These drivers really need to grow proper
scatter/gather support.

        Jonathan Kollasch


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