From: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Andrew Vasquez <andrew.vasquez@qlogic.com>,
Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 16:20:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <46607F96.7060200@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070601201444.GK7217@one.firstfloor.org>
Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 01, 2007 at 01:00:49PM -0700, Andrew Vasquez wrote:
>> yes, the card can support 64bit DMA transfers. but in this case the
>> 'required' DMA mask returned from dma_get_required_mask() states that a
>> 32bit mask would suffice.
>
> That's a bug in the kernel then that needs to be fixed. Find out
> why it does that and change it. Don't fix the symptoms, fix the root cause.
The system in question only has 2GB of memory.
Why would it need to do 64 bit DMA?
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-01 20:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-06-01 17:30 [PATCH] quiet down swiotlb warnings Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 19:01 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 18:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-01 18:18 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 19:37 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 19:38 ` Rik van Riel
2007-06-01 19:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:00 ` Andrew Vasquez
2007-06-01 20:14 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 20:20 ` Rik van Riel [this message]
2007-06-01 20:26 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-02 15:21 ` Muli Ben-Yehuda
2007-06-02 16:47 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-01 19:57 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-06-01 18:16 ` Andrew Vasquez
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