Re: User mode Virt -> Phys

Jamie Lokier (lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Wed, 13 Jan 1999 23:47:38 +0000

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> You want to avoid the kernel for _Latency_ reasons. Bandwidth isnt the
> issue since a syscall doing DMA to user space is the sme data copy rate.

Yes indeed, latency latency latency.

Now if someone could actually make handling interrupts _fast_, that'd be
great. Meanwhile...

-- Jamie

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