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From: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>, Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-scsi@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: PATCH: Further aacraid work
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 18:06:07 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040616220607.GA6451@devserv.devel.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040616215834.GA21072@infradead.org>

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 10:58:34PM +0100, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> Yikes.  This looked like they usual use 32bit dma descriptors if not
> enough memory hacks to me.  If aacraid is that royally fucked we should
> probably add CONFIG_X86 to it.

Its working on x86-32, x86-64 and I believe (Mark can confirm this) IA-64.
I'm fairly sure there are some platforms that aren't going to fit the
hardware's view of the world which seems to be

0[DMAable area..................]defined limit   [4Gb+.. PAE mode on some]

The later cards also have a 2Gb limit for the ring buffers, but not for the
I/O you want to target



  reply	other threads:[~2004-06-16 22:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-06-16 21:04 PATCH: Further aacraid work Alan Cox
2004-06-16 21:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 21:40   ` Alan Cox
2004-06-16 21:42     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 21:48       ` Alan Cox
2004-06-16 21:58         ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-16 22:06           ` Alan Cox [this message]
2004-06-29 17:48 ` Byron Stanoszek
2004-06-29 18:27   ` Mark Haverkamp
2004-06-29 18:37   ` Alan Cox
2004-06-30  2:02 ` bm
2004-06-30 16:07   ` Alan Cox
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2004-06-17 12:53 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-17 13:07 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-06-17 13:19   ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 13:55   ` James Bottomley
2004-06-17 13:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-06-17 14:02 ` Alan Cox
2004-06-17 14:39 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-17 14:55 ` James Bottomley
2004-06-17 14:58   ` Alan Cox
2004-06-17 15:15     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-06-17 19:16       ` James Bottomley
2004-06-17 16:32   ` Clay Haapala
2004-06-17 16:37     ` James Bottomley
2004-06-17 16:46     ` Alan Cox
2004-06-17 15:11 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-17 17:54 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-17 20:38 ` Alan Cox
2004-06-17 20:48   ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-17 20:56     ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 15:05     ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-18 20:32       ` William Lee Irwin III
2004-06-27 17:33         ` James Bottomley
     [not found] <286GI-5y3-11@gated-at.bofh.it>
     [not found] ` <286Qp-5EU-19@gated-at.bofh.it>
2004-06-17 19:10   ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-17 20:54     ` Alan Cox
2004-06-17 21:13       ` James Bottomley
2004-06-17 21:25       ` Andi Kleen
2004-06-18 15:19         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-18  5:57       ` Jeff Garzik
2004-06-18 14:07         ` James Bottomley
2004-06-18 15:17     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2004-06-18 20:53 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-28 13:17 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-29 18:53 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-29 19:03 ` Byron Stanoszek
2004-06-29 19:27 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-29 20:20 ` Byron Stanoszek
2004-06-29 20:42 ` Alan Cox
2004-06-29 20:55 Salyzyn, Mark
2004-06-29 23:22 ` Byron Stanoszek
2004-06-30 19:52 ` Byron Stanoszek
2004-06-30 19:59   ` Dario

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