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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, discuss@x86-64.org
Subject: Re: [1/3] Add 4GB DMA32 zone
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 13:34:33 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1126528473.30449.59.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200509121322.09138.ak@suse.de>

On Llu, 2005-09-12 at 13:22 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> And with the mempool sleep approach they will just get small queues. Yes
> that will be slower, but if you want performance on boxes with a lot of memory 
> you should not buy broken hardware.

Ironically its broken hardware it works best with. AMD64 is problematic
but Intel with the swiotlb works ;)

Ok - points made anyway, if you think the 4GB one is the best way to do
it even considering these then I've no problem with that.


  reply	other threads:[~2005-09-12 12:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-09-11 16:59 [1/3] Add 4GB DMA32 zone Andi Kleen
2005-09-12  7:44 ` [discuss] " Jan Beulich
2005-09-12  7:58   ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 10:28 ` Alan Cox
2005-09-12 10:42   ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 11:33     ` Alan Cox
2005-09-12 11:22       ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 12:34         ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-09-12 12:28           ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 18:18       ` Jeff Garzik
2005-09-12 22:02         ` Bart Hartgers
2005-09-13  3:20           ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 19:55     ` Mark Lord
2005-09-12 12:45 ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-12 12:46   ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 12:50     ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-12 12:54       ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 13:01         ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-13  9:15     ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-13  9:47       ` [discuss] " Andi Kleen
2005-09-13 10:15         ` Andrew Morton
2005-09-13 11:32           ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-13 12:09             ` Roman Zippel
2005-09-13 23:51               ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2005-10-03 15:46 ` Coywolf Qi Hunt
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-09-12 11:44 Salyzyn, Mark
2005-09-12 11:51 ` Andi Kleen
2005-09-12 12:08 Salyzyn, Mark

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