[$] Dancing the DMA two-step Direct memory access (DMA) I/O is simple in concept: a peripheral device moves data directly to or from memory while the CPU is busy doing other things. As is so often the case, DMA is rather more complicated in practice, and the kernel has developed a complicated internal API to support it. It turns out that the DMA API, as it exists now, can affect the performance of some high-bandwidth devices. In an effort to address that problem, Leon Romanovsky is making the API even more complex with https://lwn.net/ml/all/cover.1731244445.git.leon@kernel.org adding a new two-step mapping API. https://lwn.net/Articles/997563/