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From: Grant Grundler <grundler@parisc-linux.org>
To: Joel Soete <soete.joel@scarlet.be>
Cc: parisc-linux <parisc-linux@parisc-linux.org>
Subject: [parisc-linux] Re: CCIO dma io_command and related io_tlb format questions.
Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2006 23:59:23 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061017055923.GA6055@colo.lackof.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <J788XR$E1A2FE043CF88207AEC13412E82258F2@scarlet.be>

On Mon, Oct 16, 2006 at 01:51:27PM +0200, Joel Soete wrote:
...
>     but it seems that at in the history num_physpages (now ram size in bytes)
>     was well the physical number of page:
...
>     nowaday num_physpages is bytes so the comparision is eronous?
>     (compare bytes against page number)

Where did you get the idea num_physpages is in bytes?

These two examples suggest it's counting PAGE_SIZE pages :

mm/slab.c:      if (num_physpages > (32 << 20) >> PAGE_SHIFT)
mm/swap.c:      unsigned long megs = num_physpages >> (20 - PAGE_SHIFT);


>     the same way in:
>     iov_order = get_order(iova_space_size << PAGE_SHIFT);
> 
>     iova_space_size << PAGE_SHIFT == iova_space_size * 2^PAGE_SHIFT
>                                   == iova_space_size * PAGE_SIZE
> 
>     made sense when iova_space_size was a number of pages,

Look at get_order() then you'll understand why the "<< PAGE_SHIFT".
iov_order is being set to log2(iova_space_size)+1.

grant
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-10-17  5:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <J788XR$E1A2FE043CF88207AEC13412E82258F2@scarlet.be>
2006-10-16 14:37 ` [parisc-linux] Re: CCIO dma io_command and related io_tlb format questions Michael S. Zick
2006-10-17  5:59 ` Grant Grundler [this message]
     [not found] <J7AHPO$ED967CCDD9E203D6968EA2045C11A08A@scarlet.be>
     [not found] ` <45351637.4070604@computer.org>
2006-10-17 19:07   ` Kyle McMartin
     [not found] <J70JNP$255156D3B4F90827118C5EFE40FD3ABF@scarlet.be>
2006-10-12 19:55 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-13 10:56   ` Joel Soete
2006-10-13 16:44     ` Grant Grundler
     [not found]       ` <4530DF1F.5060601@scarlet.be>
2006-10-14 14:11         ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-14 16:40           ` Michael S. Zick
2006-10-14 23:35           ` Joel Soete
2006-10-15  3:28             ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-11  8:48 Joel Soete
2006-10-12  1:04 ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-12  3:27   ` James Bottomley
     [not found]   ` <4538BB5F.5040703@scarlet.be>
2006-10-20 15:50     ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-20 16:31       ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-20 17:18       ` Joel Soete
2006-10-21  6:19         ` Grant Grundler
2006-10-21 17:17           ` Joel Soete
2006-10-23  4:34             ` Grant Grundler
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2006-10-09  9:41 [parisc-linux] " Joel Soete
2006-10-10 22:08 ` [parisc-linux] " Grant Grundler

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