From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@steeleye.com>,
axboe@suse.de, grundler@parisc-linux.org, davem@redhat.com,
suparna@in.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
alex_williamson@hp.com, bjorn_helgaas@hp.com
Subject: Re: [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II
Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:55:10 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20030702165510.GC11739@dsl2.external.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030702015701.6007ac26.ak@suse.de>
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:57:01AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> The K8 IOMMU cannot support this virtually contiguous thing. The reason
> is that there is no guarantee that an entry in a sglist is a multiple
> of page size. And the aperture can only map 4K sized chunks, like
> a CPU MMU. So e.g. when you have an sglist with multiple 1K entries there is
> no way to get them continuous in IOMMU space (short of copying)
Can two adjacent IOMMU entries be used to map two 1K buffers?
Assume the 1st buffer ends on a 4k alignment and the next one
starts on a 4k alignment.
grant
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-07-02 16:40 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-07-01 16:46 [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:09 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-01 17:28 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:42 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-01 19:22 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-01 19:56 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 17:54 ` H. Peter Anvin
2003-07-01 19:19 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-01 19:59 ` Alex Williamson
2003-07-01 20:11 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 20:03 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 23:01 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 15:52 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-01 22:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-01 23:57 ` [RFC] block layer support for DMA IOMMU bypass mode II Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 0:03 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-02 0:22 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 0:21 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-02 16:53 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 17:19 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 16:55 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
2003-07-02 17:20 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-02 17:37 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-02 21:16 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-02 23:56 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-03 20:26 ` Alan Cox
2003-07-03 21:24 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-03 22:19 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08 2:14 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-08 19:34 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08 19:47 ` Jeff Garzik
2003-07-08 20:10 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-08 20:11 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08 22:04 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-08 22:25 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-08 22:23 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-09 18:55 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-23 11:40 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-28 11:15 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-28 14:59 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 2:31 ` Grant Grundler
2003-08-01 21:51 ` Cliff White
2003-08-01 23:18 ` reaim now available as osdl-aim-7 - " Cliff White
2003-07-30 4:42 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 4:51 ` David S. Miller
2003-07-30 13:06 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 16:02 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-30 16:36 ` Andi Kleen
2003-07-30 17:18 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-30 14:20 ` James Bottomley
2003-07-23 13:20 ` Grant Grundler
2003-07-23 15:30 ` Jens Axboe
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