Allocating lots of DMA RAM?

[Jeff Garzik]

Hi all.  Is the following loop (from drivers/sound/i810_audio.c among
others) still the best way to allocate a large amount of DMA RAM for
audio?  ie. for audio devices that do not support scatter-gather.

Thanks,

        Jeff



        /* alloc as big a chunk as we can, FIXME: is this necessary ?? */
        for (order = DMABUF_DEFAULTORDER; order >= DMABUF_MINORDER; order--)
                if ((rawbuf = pci_alloc_consistent(state->card->pci_dev,
                                                   PAGE_SIZE << order,
                                                   &dmabuf->dma_handle)))
                        break;
        if (!rawbuf)
                return -ENOMEM;


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