Normal DMA requests on the Cell happen between the SPUs and the PPU. However, I have read that it is possible to set up DMA directly between SPUs. Anyone have any idea how this is accomplished?
A:
The trick is essentially what Chris said. The local store of one SPE is memory-mapped into the PPE's memory space. And then you just perform a regular DMA transfer from the other SPE to that address on the PPE.
I'm sorry I don't have the exact code for this. It's been a year or so since I had to do any of this. :)
jalf
2009-10-30 12:10:43