Re: [GIT PULL] AlacrityVM guest drivers for 2.6.33

[Andi Kleen]

"Ira W. Snyder" <iws@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> (You'll quickly find that you must use DMA to transfer data across PCI.
> AFAIK, CPU's cannot do burst accesses to the PCI bus. I get a 10+ times

AFAIK that's what write-combining on x86 does. DMA has other
advantages of course.

-Andi
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