From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@oracle.com>,
Allen Martin <AMartin@nvidia.com>, Jeff Garzik <jeff@garzik.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
linux-ide@vger.kernel.org, prakash@punnoor.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive..
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 17:40:12 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4534185C.9060401@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4533B0B3.8070205@rtr.ca>
Mark Lord wrote:
> Robert Hancock wrote:
>>
>> I also noticed that I'm still using the default 64KB libata
>> dma_boundary value, this should be 4GB for ADMA mode (but fixed up
>> back to the default if an ATAPI device is connected, same as with the
>> DMA mask).
>
> Be careful of that. The original PDC hardware for ADMA still had
> the "don't cross a 64KB boundary" requirement.
>
> Cheers
That is part of the ADMA spec - but in that case, how come the
pdc_adma.c driver sets the dma_boundary in the SCSI host template to
4GB? That seems wrong.
In any case, however, I really doubt the NVIDIA ADMA controller shares
this limitation - they provide 32 bits for the region length (standard
ADMA only has 16 bits), which wouldn't be very useful if you couldn't
cross a 64KB boundary..
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Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-16 23:41 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-07 8:08 [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive Robert Hancock
2006-10-07 9:42 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-10-07 15:54 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-10 6:44 ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10 6:44 ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10 7:52 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-11-30 16:46 ` Prakash Punnoor
2006-12-01 0:07 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-07 15:28 ` Jeff Garzik
2006-10-07 23:49 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-10 6:52 ` Allen Martin
2006-10-10 6:52 ` Allen Martin
2006-10-11 5:07 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-11 10:30 ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-13 3:17 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-13 8:04 ` Jens Axboe
2006-10-17 3:34 ` [PATCH] sata_nv ADMA/NCQ support for nForce4 Robert Hancock
2006-10-17 3:37 ` Mark Lord
2006-10-17 4:24 ` Robert Hancock
2006-10-17 16:22 ` Mark Lord
2006-10-17 17:58 ` Roland Dreier
2006-10-17 20:54 ` Mark Lord
2006-10-16 16:17 ` [RFC PATCH] nForce4 ADMA with NCQ: It's aliiiive Mark Lord
2006-10-16 23:40 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2006-10-17 0:04 ` Mark Lord
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