Re: Inefficient PCI DMA usage (was: [experimental patch] UHCI updates)

[Russell King]

Johannes Erdfelt writes:
> They need to be visible via DMA. They need to be 16 byte aligned. We
> also have QH's which have similar requirements, but we don't use as many
> of them.

Can we get away from the "16 byte aligned" and make it "n byte aligned"?
I believe that slab already has support for this?
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