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Norman Feske bbe3ee8dc5 block_session: server-defined payload alignment
This patch replaces the formerly fixed 2 KiB data alignment within the
packet-stream buffer by a server-defined alignment. This has two
benefits.

First, when using block servers that provide small block sizes like 512
bytes, we avoid fragmenting the packet-stream buffer, which occurs when
aligning 512-byte requests at 2 KiB boundaries. This reduces meta data
costs for the packet-stream allocator and also allows fitting more
requests into the buffer.

Second, block drivers with alignment constraints dictated by the
hardware can now pass those constraints to the client, thereby easing
the use of zero-copy DMA directly into the packet stream.

The alignment is determined by the Block::Session_client at construction
time and applied by the Block::Session_client::alloc_packet method.
Block-session clients should always use this method, not the 'alloc_packet'
method of the packet stream (tx source) directly. The latter merely
applies a default alignment of 2 KiB.

At the server side, the alignment is automatically checked by
block/component.h (old API) and block/request_stream.h (new API).

Issue #3274
2019-05-03 13:53:12 +02:00
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doc Make label prefixing more strict 2016-11-30 13:37:07 +01:00
include Remove residual uses of deprecated APIs 2019-02-19 11:12:12 +01:00
lib virtualbox: fix compiler error with newer iasl versions 2019-03-18 15:56:23 +01:00
mk ports: allow more customizations in gnu_build.mk 2018-02-09 13:34:20 +01:00
ports e2fsprogs: disarm the mount-point check 2019-04-09 12:30:35 +02:00
recipes depot: update recipe hashes 2019-04-09 12:30:35 +02:00
run seoul: use nitpicker session 2019-04-01 19:33:50 +02:00
src block_session: server-defined payload alignment 2019-05-03 13:53:12 +02:00
README Remove repos/qt4, fix #1451 2015-03-19 08:57:20 +01:00

This directory contains ports of popular 3rd-party applications to Genode.

The 'ports' repository follows the line of the 'libports' repository.
For instructions about downloading and building 3rd-party applications,
please refer to 'libports/README'.


Dependencies from other repositories
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Application provided by the 'ports' repository typically expect a rich
runtime environment, including shared libraries provided by the 'libports'
repository. Hence, 'ports' depends on 'libports'.