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@@ -183,7 +183,7 @@ it, the pci dma mapping routines and associated data structures have now been
183modified to accomplish a direct page -> bus translation, without requiring 183modified to accomplish a direct page -> bus translation, without requiring
184a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address 184a virtual address mapping (unlike the earlier scheme of virtual address
185-> bus translation). So this works uniformly for high-memory pages (which 185-> bus translation). So this works uniformly for high-memory pages (which
186do not have a correponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and 186do not have a corresponding kernel virtual address space mapping) and
187low-memory pages. 187low-memory pages.
188 188
189Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA 189Note: Please refer to DMA-mapping.txt for a discussion on PCI high mem DMA
@@ -1013,7 +1013,7 @@ Characteristics:
1013i. Binary tree 1013i. Binary tree
1014AS and deadline i/o schedulers use red black binary trees for disk position 1014AS and deadline i/o schedulers use red black binary trees for disk position
1015sorting and searching, and a fifo linked list for time-based searching. This 1015sorting and searching, and a fifo linked list for time-based searching. This
1016gives good scalability and good availablility of information. Requests are 1016gives good scalability and good availability of information. Requests are
1017almost always dispatched in disk sort order, so a cache is kept of the next 1017almost always dispatched in disk sort order, so a cache is kept of the next
1018request in sort order to prevent binary tree lookups. 1018request in sort order to prevent binary tree lookups.
1019 1019