DMA from SCSI controller to PCI frame buffer memory.
Quoted 6 lines · Jason
Any recommendations on where to start hacking? Would it be a good idea to add
O_DIRECTto a mmaped PCI space? The kernel should not be doing any buffering whatsoever, as we will be coming close to filling the pci bus up with transfers from directdisk->fbalready. (We are already doing buffering on the FB card as well)
Jason,
Here is a less general solution that I worked on some time ago involving the scsi generic driver.
http://www.torque.net/sg/mem2disk.html
It worked ok for one application in the early 2.4 series.
Doug Gilbert