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From: okaya@codeaurora.org (Sinan Kaya)
Date: Tue, 10 Nov 2015 15:26:02 -0500
Subject: [PATCH V2 1/3] scsi: mptxsas: try 64 bit DMA when 32 bit DMA fails
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On 11/10/2015 3:05 PM, James Bottomley wrote:
> OK, you don't seem to be understanding the problem: the Altix isn't a
> LSI card, it was a SGI platform.

Got it.

> It was the platform where we first
> discovered the issue that a lot of storage cards didn't work because it
> by default had no memory below 4GB.  The reason coherent masks were
> introduced was initially so the Altix could manufacture and manage a
> region of memory in the lower 4GB region and we would guarantee to make
> allocations from it so the storage cards would then work on that
> platform.

I can't fix the issue if the card cannot do 64 bit DMA when IOMMU is not 
there. I need IOMMU enabled all the time for this card.

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Sinan Kaya
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