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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
	discuss@x86-64.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [discuss] Re: Please pull x86-64 bug fixes
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 14:21:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200610161421.25530.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1160133260.1607.60.camel@localhost.localdomain>

On Friday 06 October 2006 13:14, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Iau, 2006-10-05 am 23:44 +0200, ysgrifennodd Andi Kleen:
> > I think we had that argument before. IMHO such messages are completely
> > useless. Hangs are not acceptable no matter what messages are printed
> > before.
> 
> Oh so you plan to fix the iommu/aacraid problem you always said you
> wouldn't fix ?

They don't cause hangs, just IO errors (or panics if you configure
iommu debugging)

Actually I plan to fix this one, but it will require more work.
Basically the plan is to make the current dma zone variable sized
and get rid of all GFP_DMA allocations.  Merge the current soft iommu
with that new dma allocator. Then make sure all allocations
that need such low dma use a mask argument to some allocator.

Then we can have a option to configure the size of the dma low zone.
Users of broken hardware just configure a larger size.

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2006-10-16 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 34+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-10-05 17:10 Please pull x86-64 bug fixes Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:17 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:31   ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 17:43     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 17:53       ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 19:29         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 19:42           ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 20:02             ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-05 20:10               ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 22:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:52                 ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:07                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:21                     ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 23:36                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06  0:57                     ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-06  1:29                       ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 11:03                 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 16:07                   ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-06 16:19                     ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-06 22:01                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-10-06 22:31                       ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-06 23:06                         ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-07  5:23                           ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-10-07  2:20                         ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-08 20:59                           ` Duran, Leo
2006-10-08 22:42                             ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 22:00         ` Alan Cox
2006-10-05 21:44           ` Andi Kleen
2006-10-06 11:14             ` Alan Cox
2006-10-16 12:21               ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2006-10-05 17:21 ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 17:27   ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2006-10-05 22:59     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-10-05 23:05       ` Andi Kleen

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