pci_alloc_consistent()

["Leonid Grossman" <leonid.grossman@s2io.com>]

Are there any known issues with pci_alloc_consistent() allocating more
than 1MB?
One of our developers seems to recall a thread but we can't find it...

We are using pci_alloc_consistent() in our 10GbE driver, to allocate
memory for DMA transfers between
host and device. 
If we allocate under 1MB, everything works fine. When the allocation is
more than 1 MB, allocation call does not return any failure but some
data corruption seems to take place beyond the 1 MB space. 

Is this a known problem? The system is 2-way Itanium, running 2.4.21
kernel.

Thanks in advance, Leonid


> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org 
> [mailto:linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org] On Behalf Of 
> Charles Shannon Hendrix
> Sent: Thursday, January 22, 2004 3:48 PM
> To: Linux Kernel
> Subject: Re: Nvidia drivers and 2.6.x kernel
> 
> 
> Thu, 22 Jan 2004 @ 12:12 +0000, Kieran said:
> 
> > How strange. I run slack 9.1 and 2.6.1, just grabbed the 4496
> > pre-patched file from http://www.sh.nu/download/nvidia/ and 
> installed it 
> > as I would on 2.4. Works a charm.
> 
> How's the performance?
> 
> I have found the 4496 and 5328 drivers lowered my performance.
> 
> 5328 is supposed to be faster mip-mapping and faster when 
> running with vertical blank sync, but I didn't see it myself. 
>  It also caused quite a few sound artifacts from my Live! sound card.
> 
> Anyone done a driver-by-driver benchmark?
> 
> I got tired of it, but here's the performance order on my 
> system from fastest to slowest:
> 
> 4620
> 3xxx (last stable 3xxx driver)
> 4496
> 5328
> 
> Mostly what I look for are not benchmark numbers, but notable 
> hesitation in programs and interactive response, and side 
> effects like bad sound artifacts.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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