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From: Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>
To: "Moore, Eric Dean" <Emoore@lsil.com>
Cc: jbarnes@sgi.com, jeremy@sgi.com, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com,
	willy@debian.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com,
	linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: RE: mpt sets 64bit consistent mask yet requires mapping in same 4 GB chunk?!?
Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:52:57 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1077130375.3066.17.camel@patsy.fc.hp.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5703EF9372@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com>

On Wed, 2004-02-18 at 11:41, Moore, Eric Dean wrote:
> Regarding last weeks thread
> on mpt fusion driver(2.6 kernel), and PrimeIocFifos:
> 
[snip... a third allocation dependency]

> If this fix is urgent, I recommend providing a quick 
> fix which is creating 32bit pci_dev mask just for these 
> three pci_alloc_consistent calls. 
> 

   The current failure mode is pretty ugly and appears fairly random.  I
would consider getting something that works reliably to be urgent.  It
sounds easy and safe to twiddle the consistent device mask in the short
term and combine these allocations in a future rev.  Thanks,

	Alex

-- 
Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab


  reply	other threads:[~2004-02-18 18:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-02-18 18:41 mpt sets 64bit consistent mask yet requires mapping in same 4 GB chunk?!? Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-18 18:52 ` Alex Williamson [this message]
2004-02-18 23:20   ` Jeremy Higdon
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-02-19 17:18 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-20  6:30 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-02-19  0:03 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-19  1:09 ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-02-13 23:23 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-13 21:20 Moore, Eric Dean
2004-02-13 21:30 ` Jesse Barnes
2004-02-13 22:52   ` Bjorn Helgaas
2004-02-13 23:08     ` Jeremy Higdon
2004-02-13 23:13     ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-02-13 23:39       ` Jeremy Higdon

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