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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: libata .sg_tablesize: why always dividing by 2 ?
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:43:53 +1100
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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.