Yes. This is the better solution for performance as well. The flushing
routines are really only suitable for large blocks such as data buffers.
>Non-cache coherent archs should probably
>define a kmalloc flag to allocate non cachable space. (I still don't know
>what is the cleanest way to get non-cachable space. ioremap ?).
Ioremap won't necessarily work on physical RAM. You should probably define
vmalloc_uncached or some such.
p.
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