From: Alan <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@lwfinger.net>,
Ray Lee <ray-lk@madrabbit.org>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Problem with DMA on x86_64 with 3 GB RAM
Date: Tue, 21 Nov 2006 20:04:47 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061121200447.25152d2e@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611211931.53802.ak@suse.de>
> If it did like you're recommending a huge number of drivers
> in the tree wouldn't work anymore (just think about what pci_alloc_consistent
> does)
There are very few drivers who actually request less than 32bit DMA
and those would (and should) fail or be forced to do their own fallbacks.
Alan
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-21 19:59 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-15 19:01 bcm43xx regression 2.6.19rc3 -> rc5, rtnl_lock trouble? Ray Lee
2006-11-15 19:15 ` Michael Buesch
2006-11-15 19:41 ` Ray Lee
2006-11-16 2:51 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-16 5:51 ` Ray Lee
2006-11-18 11:24 ` Joseph Fannin
2006-11-18 16:55 ` Johannes Berg
2006-11-18 17:05 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-18 17:27 ` Ray Lee
2006-11-18 18:30 ` Adrian Bunk
2006-11-21 6:21 ` Ray Lee
2006-11-18 19:02 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-19 16:01 ` Michael Buesch
2006-12-12 4:06 ` ieee80211 sleeping in invalid context Ray Lee
2006-12-12 9:14 ` Michael Buesch
2006-12-12 17:51 ` Ray Lee
2006-12-12 18:31 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-19 6:15 ` Problem with DMA on x86_64 with 3 GB RAM Larry Finger
2006-11-21 4:38 ` Ray Lee
2006-11-21 11:28 ` Alan
2006-11-21 16:34 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-21 10:30 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-21 16:37 ` Larry Finger
2006-11-21 16:46 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-21 18:27 ` Alan
2006-11-21 18:31 ` Andi Kleen
2006-11-21 20:04 ` Alan [this message]
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