An intermediate buffer in the storage control allows independent operations between the channel and the device.
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This means that for other memory areas, the data has to be transferred first by DMA from the I / O device to an intermediate buffer in the first 16 MiB of the physical address space, and then moved to the final memory by the CPU; or, in the other direction, it must be transferred from the initial memory to the intermediate buffer by the CPU before being transferred by DMA from that buffer to the I / O device.
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This means that for other memory areas, the data has to be transferred first by DMA from the I / O device to an intermediate buffer in the first 16 MiB of the physical address space, and then moved to the final memory by the CPU; or, in the other direction, it must be transferred from the initial memory to the intermediate buffer by the CPU before being transferred by DMA from that buffer to the I / O device.