DMA (Direct Memory Access) frees the CPU from these menial tasks. With DMA, peripheral devices do not have to ask the CPU to fetch some data for them, but can do it themselves.

Facebook is working with the University of Michigan, as it often does on memory and storage research. Given the HPC roots of KAIST, the researchers who put together the DirectCXL prototype focused on ...

DMA (Direct Memory Access): Reserved for hardware needing direct memory access. Normal Zone: Usable memory for kernel and user processes. High Memory: Used when physical memory exceeds the directly ...