From: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PROBLEM] Hw problem or software bug? DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space....
Date: Sun, 07 Dec 2008 12:47:08 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <493C1A2C.3080801@shaw.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <12bfabe40812061948w4069e389ub90c4af86a493da6@mail.gmail.com>
Giangiacomo Mariotti wrote:
> I'm running Linux 2.6.27.8.(PS. Today I've sent another e-mail about a
> problem with my new Intel I7 920, but it doesn't seem related except
> for the fact that with 2.6.26.8 neither of them seem to occur.)
> I just read this through dmesg :
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.830078] DMA: Out of
> SW-IOMMU space for 16384 bytes at device 0000:00:1f.2
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.830167] ata1.00: exception
> Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.830175] ata1.00: cmd
> 35/00:00:af:e5:54/00:04:08:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.830176] res
> 50/00:00:ae:e5:54/00:00:08:00:00/e0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.830180] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897407] ata1.00: configured
> for UDMA/133
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897420] ata1: EH complete
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897542] DMA: Out of
> SW-IOMMU space for 16384 bytes at device 0000:00:1f.2
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897574] ata1.00: exception
> Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897580] ata1.00: cmd
> 35/00:00:af:e5:54/00:04:08:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897581] res
> 50/00:00:af:6d:70/00:00:74:00:00/e0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.897584] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921416] ata1.00: configured
> for UDMA/133
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921435] ata1: EH complete
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921552] DMA: Out of
> SW-IOMMU space for 16384 bytes at device 0000:00:1f.2
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921586] ata1.00: exception
> Emask 0x0 SAct 0x0 SErr 0x0 action 0x0
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921592] ata1.00: cmd
> 35/00:00:af:e5:54/00:04:08:00:00/e0 tag 0 dma 524288 out
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921593] res
> 50/00:00:af:6d:70/00:00:74:00:00/e0 Emask 0x40 (internal error)
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.921597] ata1.00: status: { DRDY }
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.945397] ata1.00: configured
> for UDMA/133
> Dec 7 03:33:49 debian-hell kernel: [57102.945417] ata1: EH complete
Seems like you have lots of disks, it could be you just have too much IO
in flight at the same time for the size of the IOMMU area. You might be
able to avoid that by increasing the SW-IOMMU size.
However, your system should be AHCI capable, you should try to switch
the SATA controller into that mode in the BIOS (possibly labelled RAID
mode or something). Then it shouldn't need to use bounce buffers for
disk access in the first place (plus give you NCQ support).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-07 18:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-07 3:48 [PROBLEM] Hw problem or software bug? DMA: Out of SW-IOMMU space Giangiacomo Mariotti
2008-12-07 11:35 ` Alan Cox
2008-12-07 12:47 ` Giangiacomo Mariotti
2008-12-07 18:47 ` Robert Hancock [this message]
2008-12-07 21:38 ` Giangiacomo Mariotti
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