Re: [Linux-ia64] kernel update (relative to v2.4.18)

David Mosberger
2002-07-23T01:28:24Z

>>>>> On Tue, 23 Jul 2002 02:21:39 +0100, Matthew Wilcox <willy@debian.org> said:

Matthew> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 06:10:11PM -0700, David Mosberger
Matthew> wrote:
>> Argh, I'm sorry about that. This wasn't my intention. I think I
>> misread e100 and e1000 and picked that one up by accident.
>>
>> I'll fix that and update the 2.4.18 patch shortly. I would like
>> to have a final 2.4.18 patch without silly issues like these.
>> (Assuming 2.4.19 shows up relatively soon).

Matthew> well, the eepro100 patch does fix a real problem on those
Matthew> cards. is there a real problem with increasing the default
Matthew> swiotlb size?

My understanding is that the 1024 value is way bigger than it really
needs to be. I don't want to bloat the kernel for no good reason. If
someone presents some real data as to what needs to be used here, I'll
be happy to adjust things accordingly.

--david