* I/O and MM question
@ 1999-01-10 17:13 Jelle Foks
1999-01-10 23:52 ` Ingo Oeser
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From: Jelle Foks @ 1999-01-10 17:13 UTC (permalink / raw
To: linux-mm
Hi,
I have a question about memory management in Linux and low-overhead I/O
between devices and the file system.
I have a device that has memory-mapped access. In a system with 8MB of RAM
(where the kernel reports and uses only 8MB of RAM), the device responds
to memory read and write accesses in the region 8-16MB. What I need to do
is fast I/O between the device the hard drive. Currently, I access the
device from a module that has mapped the device's I/O RAM addresses to a
pointer with vremap(). This way, I should be able to make a character
device that allows a user space process to fread() from the device and
fwrite() to the hard drive (and vice versa). However, I'd like to
eliminate the memory copy to/from the user-space process's buffer, and do
something like an fwrite() directly from the simulated-RAM provided by the
device (or probably better a memcpy() from the device to a mmap()ped file
from disk).
Can I give a user process read/write access to the RAM from the device?
(how/which function to use?). Does the mm/paging system of Linux allow me
this? Or does the mm/paging code already somehow eliminate the memory-copy
of the fread()->fwrite() combo (how?)? Or should/could I use a scheme
where the user space process gives the pointer of a mmap()ed file to the
device driver, and let the device driver itself do a memcpy() to the
mmap()ped file?
Does anybody have any hints, ideas, etc?
Greetings,
Jelle.
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* Re: I/O and MM question
1999-01-10 17:13 I/O and MM question Jelle Foks
@ 1999-01-10 23:52 ` Ingo Oeser
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From: Ingo Oeser @ 1999-01-10 23:52 UTC (permalink / raw
To: Jelle Foks; +Cc: linux-mm
On Sun, 10 Jan 1999, Jelle Foks wrote:
> (how/which function to use?). Does the mm/paging system of Linux allow me
> this? Or does the mm/paging code already somehow eliminate the memory-copy
> of the fread()->fwrite() combo (how?)?
What about sendfile(2) ? It's linux-sepcific, but it does avoid
the getuser/putuser-couple for the data to be read/written.
cu
Ingo
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