Re: A scrub daemon (prezeroing)

From: David Woodhouse
Date: Wed Feb 02 2005 - 16:39:29 EST


On Wed, 2005-02-02 at 21:00 +0000, Maciej W. Rozycki wrote:
> E.g. the Broadcom's MIPS64-based SOCs have four general purpose DMA
> engines onchip which can transfer data to/from the memory controller in
> 32-byte chunks over the 256-bit internal bus. We have hardly any use for
> these devices and certainly not for all four of them.

On machines like the Ocelot, I keep intending to abuse one of the DMA
engines for access to the DiskOnChip. Really must dig the Ocelot out of
the dusty pile of toys... :)

--
dwmw2


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