From: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@mandrakesoft.com>
To: "MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" <hiren_mehta@agilent.com>
Cc: "'Ralf Baechle'" <ralf@uni-koblenz.de>,
"'linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org'" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: pci_alloc_consistent question
Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2001 17:37:45 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3BD09D29.2ACF840E@mandrakesoft.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <01A7DAF31F93D511AEE300D0B706ED9208E4A5@axcs13.cos.agilent.com>
"MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)" wrote:
> so, what is the conservative number ? 1MB ?
FWIW, if you need more than 1-4MB, you can use alloc_bootmem at system
boot to reserve huge amounts of contiguous memory... (not that anything
but lame hardware requires that anymore)
> -----Original Message-----
> On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 12:32:19PM -0600, MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1) wrote:
>
> > Is there any limitation on the amount of contiguous dmaable memory that
> > can be allocated using a single call to pci_alloc_consistent() ?
>
> Entirely platform dependant. On some systems the total available DMA memory
> for DMA may be as limited as 1mb, others have limits like 16mb yet other can
> support the entire 32-bit address space for DMA. So in case of doubt be
> conservative.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-10-19 21:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-10-19 21:24 pci_alloc_consistent question MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
2001-10-19 21:37 ` Jeff Garzik [this message]
2001-10-19 21:59 ` Ralf Baechle
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2001-10-19 18:32 MEHTA,HIREN (A-SanJose,ex1)
2001-10-19 18:51 ` Francois Romieu
2001-10-19 20:57 ` Ralf Baechle
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