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From: Boaz Harrosh <bharrosh@panasas.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/4] Use of new scsi_allocate_command
Date: Thu, 01 May 2008 18:36:17 +0300
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On Thu, May 01 2008 at 18:22 +0300, James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com> wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-05-01 at 17:56 +0300, Boaz Harrosh wrote:
>> The call to pci_map_page() on an ISA case will it not bounce the
>> buffer?
> 
> Only if the system isn't a PCI_DMA_BUS_IS_PHYS one.
> 
> That means basically either has an iommu/gart or has some silly swiotlb
> to emulate one.
> 
> That means for standard x86 isa systems the answer is no: the buffer has
> to be allocated within the isa region because pci_map is simply a
> virt_to_phys.
> 
> James
> 
OK Thanks, so the second patch then. That will solve it.

Boaz