Re: dma_mapping_ops for i386

[Herbert Xu]

Muli Ben-Yehuda <muli@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>> And probably some similar mechanism for network drivers that limits
>> MTUs.
> 
> Will that guarantee that block and net IOs will not straddle a page
> boundary?

Mostly.  There is the thorny case of slab debugging that breaks
these nice assumptions.

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