From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, discuss@x86-64.org, akpm@osdl.org,
markh@osdl.org, alan@redhat.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [29/82] x86_64: Rename IOMMU option, fix help and mark option embedded.
Date: Sat, 24 Jun 2006 19:14:33 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060624231433.GA24862@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <449C852C.mailCZT11F9YB@suse.de>
On Sat, Jun 24, 2006 at 02:19:56AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> To my astonishment I discovered the aacraid driver tests this
> symbol directly. This looks quite broken to me - it's an internal
> implementation detail of the PCI DMA API. Can the maintainer
> please clarify what this test was intended to do?
Shouldn't be to your astonishment, you were involved in the process
Older aacraid hardware cannot address the 3-4GB range where the iommu
remaps pages. As the PCI DMA implementation for the x86-64 is flawed and
doesn't support any nice way to deal with this via swiotlb instead the
driver handles it internally.
Yeah its ugly, but its old hw and its a one off that can do without tangling
the core code. At least thats what you decided last time around ;)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-06-24 23:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-06-24 0:19 [PATCH] [29/82] x86_64: Rename IOMMU option, fix help and mark option embedded Andi Kleen
2006-06-24 23:14 ` Alan Cox [this message]
2006-06-25 15:22 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-25 19:00 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-25 19:32 ` Andi Kleen
2006-06-25 22:21 ` Alan Cox
2006-06-26 6:24 ` Andi Kleen
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2006-06-26 12:37 Salyzyn, Mark
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