From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Mark Lord <liml@rtr.ca>
Cc: Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>, Tejun Heo <htejun@gmail.com>,
Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@HansenPartnership.com>,
IDE/ATA development list <linux-ide@vger.kernel.org>,
FUJITA Tomonori <fujita.tomonori@lab.ntt.co.jp>
Subject: Re: libata .sg_tablesize: why always dividing by 2 ?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:43:53 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1204062233.15052.157.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47C43D7F.3010005@rtr.ca>
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 11:25 -0500, Mark Lord wrote:
> That's interesting. Can you point us to the exact file::lines where
> this happens? It would be good to ensure that this gets fixed.
>
> I'm copying Fujita Tomonori on this thread now -- he's the dude who's
> trying to sort out the IOMMU mess.
As I said before, it should not be fixed.
If it's "fixed", we'll run out of iommu space all the time.
We should stop having stupid requirements instead.
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-02-26 21:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-02-26 0:02 libata .sg_tablesize: why always dividing by 2 ? Mark Lord
2008-02-26 0:15 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-26 0:27 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 0:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 1:37 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 1:43 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 2:54 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 4:38 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 5:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 5:43 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 5:47 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 16:09 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-26 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 16:25 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 16:51 ` Mark Lord
2008-02-26 21:50 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 21:56 ` James Bottomley
2008-02-26 22:30 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 23:16 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 21:43 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2008-02-26 23:07 ` Alan Cox
2008-02-26 23:19 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-28 7:36 ` FUJITA Tomonori
2008-02-28 7:44 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 2:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2008-02-26 0:22 ` Jeff Garzik
2008-02-26 0:28 ` Mark Lord
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