From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alex Williamson Subject: RE: mpt sets 64bit consistent mask yet requires mapping in same 4 GB chunk?!? Date: Wed, 18 Feb 2004 11:52:57 -0700 Sender: linux-scsi-owner@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1077130375.3066.17.camel@patsy.fc.hp.com> References: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5703EF9372@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from atlrel9.hp.com ([156.153.255.214]:45280 "EHLO atlrel9.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S267841AbUBRSxG (ORCPT ); Wed, 18 Feb 2004 13:53:06 -0500 In-Reply-To: <0E3FA95632D6D047BA649F95DAB60E5703EF9372@exa-atlanta.se.lsil.com> List-Id: linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org To: "Moore, Eric Dean" Cc: jbarnes@sgi.com, jeremy@sgi.com, bjorn.helgaas@hp.com, willy@debian.org, James.Bottomley@steeleye.com, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org 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