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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: adam@yggdrasil.com
Cc: sp@scali.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB?
Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 17:13:33 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20020305.171333.72710637.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200203051708.JAA05742@adam.yggdrasil.com>
In-Reply-To: <200203051708.JAA05742@adam.yggdrasil.com>

   From: "Adam J. Richter" <adam@yggdrasil.com>
   Date: Tue, 5 Mar 2002 09:08:20 -0800

   Steffen Persvold writes:
   >I know pci_map_single (and _sg) will
   >use bounce buffers on platforms without an IOMMU [...]
   
   	For a moment I thought that must be the point that I
   was missing, but I don't see any such bounce buffer support
   in linux-2.5.6-pre2/include/asm-i386/pci.h or arch/i386/kernel/pci-dma.c.
   I do not see how this is currently implemented on x86 systems with >4GB
   of RAM.

You won't get HIGHMEM pages in your driver unless you are using
2.5.x and tell the scsi layer you are capable to DMA to/from
HIGHMEM pages.

Similarly for networking drivers, and setting NETIF_F_HIGHDMA in
the net device feature flags.

  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-06  1:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-05 17:08 Does kmalloc always return address below 4GB? Adam J. Richter
2002-03-06  1:13 ` David S. Miller [this message]
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2002-03-06  2:28 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 16:39 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 17:00 ` Gerd Knorr
2002-03-06  7:22   ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 21:57 ` Steffen Persvold
2002-03-05 14:43 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 15:15 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 11:52 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 11:59 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 11:12 Adam J. Richter
2002-03-05 11:16 ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 15:43   ` Steffen Persvold
2002-03-05 15:47     ` David S. Miller
2002-03-05 16:44       ` David Mosberger
2002-03-06  1:09         ` David S. Miller
2002-03-06  1:31           ` David Mosberger
2002-03-06  1:52             ` David S. Miller
2002-03-06  2:04               ` David Mosberger

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