Suspending and Resuming a DMA Transfer

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Note  The NetDMA interface is not supported in Windows 8 and later.

The NetDMA interface can call a NetDMA provider driver's ProviderSuspendDma function, if any, to temporarily suspend any dynamic memory access (DMA) transfers that are in progress on a DMA channel. The NetDMA provider returns the physical address of the last DMA descriptor that it processed at the address that the pLastDescriptor parameter specifies in ProviderSuspendDma.

The NetDMA provider completes the transfer of the current DMA descriptor before it returns from ProviderSuspendDma If completion status reporting is enabled, the DMA engine writes the NetDmaTransferStatusSuspend status in the address that is specified in the CompletionVirtualAddress and CompletionPhysicalAddress members in the NET_DMA_CHANNEL_PARAMETERS structure.

While the DMA transfers are suspended, the NetDMA interface can modify the DMA descriptor linked list (for example, to insert or delete descriptors).

The NetDMA interface calls the ProviderResumeDma function to resume DMA operations that the interface suspended by calling ProviderSuspendDma. If the NetDMA provider driver specifies an entry point for a ProviderSuspendDma function, it must also specify an entry point for a ProviderResumeDma function.

When the DMA engine resumes transfers, the hardware reloads the DMA descriptor that it processed last to get the new next descriptor.